William Seward: “If this practice was to be reversed, let the decision stand upon record, and let it appear how entirely the freedom of…”

The recital of heroic actions loses its chief value, if we cannot discover the principles in which they were born.

By the blessing of the Author of those rights, they have prevailed over all opposition, and form the basis of thirteen independent States.

That freedom and that security required that the nations of Europe should relax their grasp on the American Continent.

It depends not on the zeal and firmness only of the reformers, but on their wisdom and moderation also.