These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

It is impossible not to bestow the imputation of deliberate imposture and deception upon the gross pretense of a similitude between a king of Great Britain and a magistrate of the character marked out for that of the President of the United States. It is still more impossible to withhold that imputation from the rash and barefaced expedients which have been employed to give success to the attempted imposition.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.