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

I asked the old man what he wanted to learn to read for.

Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?

Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.

You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.