To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy wort…

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be …

Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Jud…

We will do all we can to insure peace... but if war is imposed upon us we will be together shoulder to shoulder as in the last war to strive for the happiness …

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserv…