Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.