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

The unspoken word never does harm.

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

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.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

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