"They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none."

Diplomacy, Commerce, Favors, Justice, Nations

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"They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none."

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"No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."

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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."

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"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."

Albert Camus, French Philosopher

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"One picture is worth 1,000 denials."

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim."

James Reston, American Journalist

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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

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"They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world."

Competition

"We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred."

Power

"We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section."

History

"The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic."

Policy

"We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands."

Fear

"Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole management of our relations with foreign governments."

Government

"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."

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"Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years."

History

"The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day."

Government

"The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death."

Death