Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?