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.
Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.
Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.
I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.