Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.