Political Quotes

I feel quite confident that Congress will bestow upon these resolutions the careful consideration to which they are eminently entitled.

Governments may be, and doubtless often have been, wrong in going to war to enforce claims.

It does not appear to me to be competent for commissioners authorized to ascertain the indemnity for the injury to go behind their authority and decide upon the original merits of the claim for which the war was made.

There is but one mode left of settling the dispute, and that is by submitting it to the arbitration of some friendly and impartial power.