William Seward: “I can only repeat thanks, thanks, thanks to you, one and all, and implore the blessings of God upon you and your…”

There are events, the monuments of which, surviving every other memorial of human existence, eternize the nation to whose history they belong, after all other vestiges of its glory have disappeared from the globe.

But the people of France, shut up in darkness during centuries of misrule, passed at a step from abject servitude to unlimited freedom.

And a people which should deliberately, by the organization of its authorized power, deprive itself of the faculty of multiplying its own blessings, would be as wise as a creator who should undertake to constitute a human being without a…

Roads and canals are among the most essential means of improving the condition of nations.