Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

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.