I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.

We retain nothing, although we have conquered everything...France is chiefly, if not solely, to be dreaded by us in the light of a maritime and commercial powe…

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.

While we had France for an enemy, Germany was the scene to employ and baffle her arms.