If You Wish To Avoid Foreign Collision,

Political Parties Serve To Keep Each Other In Check, One Keenly Watching The Other.

In A Scheme Of Policy Which Is Devised For A Nation, We Should Not Limit Our Views To Its Operation During A Single Year, Or Even For A Short Term Of Years. We Should Look At Its Operation For A Considerable Time, And In War As Well As In Peace.

I Always Have Had, And Always Shall Have, A Profound Regard For Christianity, The Religion Of My Fathers, And For Its Rights, Its Usages And Observances.

Let Him Who Elevates Himself Above Humanity . . . Say, If He Pleases, "i Will Never Compromise"; But Let No One Who Is Not Above The Frailties Of Our Common Nature Disdain Compromise.

If You Wish To Avoid Foreign Collision, You Had Better Abandon The Ocean.