Statistics Are No Substitute For

The Measure Of The Wealth Of A Nation Is Indicated By The Measure Of Its Protection Of Its Industry; The Measure Of The Poverty Of A Nation Is Marked By The Degree In Which It Neglects And Abandons The Care Of Its Own Industry, Leaving It Exposed To The Action Of Foreign Powers.

I Am Not, Sir, In Favor Of Cherishing The Passion Of Conquest. I Am Permitted ... To Indulge The Hope Of Seeing, Ere Long, The New United States, (if You Will Allow Me The Expression,) Embracing Not Only The Old.

Precedents Deliberately Established By Wise Men Are Entitled To Great Weight. They Are Evidence Of Truth, But Only Evidence...but A Solitary Precedent...which Has Never Been Reexamined, Cannot Be Conclusive.

A Nation's Character Is The Sum Of Its Splendid Deeds; They Constitute One Common Patrimony, The Nation's Inheritance. They Awe Foreign Powers, They Arouse And Animate Our Own People.

Peaceably If We Can, Forcibly If We Must.