You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

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.

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

The unspoken word never does harm.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

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