I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.