The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighborhood of Quebec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us the experience for the attack on Halifax, the next and final expulsion of England from the American continent.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their con…

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, self-preservation in the other.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violence - against a government whose only reply is savag…

We are in no position to withstand a prolonged static war. Wherever the allies concentrate their forces they will break through. For us there can be no questio…

There are those who propose that both sides remove all their forces from Germany. That's a silly idea. The Germans hate us; we couldn't think of removing our f…