Light has spread, and even bayonets think.
You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.
I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.
It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.