It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.