The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

No President can be great, or even fit for office, if he attempts to accommodate to injustice to maintain his political balance.

Since the institution of slavery was so important to the economic development of America, it had a profound impact in shaping the social-political-legal structure of the nation. Land and slaves were the chief forms of private property, property was wealth and the voice of wealth made the law and determined politics.

The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.

Let it be public, full, and fair. No cliqueism or cheatery about it.