Statistics Are No Substitute For Judgment.

Whether We Assert Our Rights By Sea, Or Attempt Their Maintenance By Land Whithersoever We Turn Ourselves, This Phantom Incessantly Pursues Us. Already Has It Had Too Much Influence On The Councils Of The Nation.

All Legislation, All Government, All Society Is Founded Upon The Principle Of Mutual Concession, Politeness, Comity, Courtesy; Upon These Everything Is Based...let Him Who Elevates Himself Above Humanity, Above Its Weaknesses, Its Infirmities, Its Wants, Its Necessities, Say, If He Pleases, I Will Never Compromise; But Let No One Who Is Not Above The Frailties Of Our Common Nature Disdain Compromises.

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.

There Is No Power Like Oratory. Caesar Controlled Men By Exciting Their Fears, Cicero By . . . Swaying Their Passions. The Influence Of The One Perished; That Of The Other Continues To This Day.

I Have No Commiseration For Princes. My Sympathies Are Reserved For The Great Mass Of Mankind ….