Whitelaw Reid: “Practically everybody recognizes now that we must retain control of Cuba's foreign relations.”

It seems to me, then, idle to thresh over old straw when the grain is not only winnowed, but gone to the mill.

Here was the opportunity for a statesman to grasp.

Above all, if there is a trace of politics in their work, or of seeking for political effect at home, they will fail, and deserve to fail.

I never saw hands more cheerful or contented than some managed on this last plan were.