I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out.

The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

On the contrary, all the world would point to that nation as violating a treaty, by going to war with a country with whom they had engaged to enter into arbitration.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.