He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

That man [Sir Sydney Smith] made me miss my destiny.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

The sufferings and impoverishment of peoples might arrest their warfare, the collapse of the defeated might still the cannonade, but their hatreds continue unappeased and their quarrels are still unsettled.

I know something about that war, and I never want to see that history repeated. But, my fellow Americans, it certainly can be repeated if the peace-loving democratic nations again fearfully practice a policy of standing idly by while big aggressors use armed force to conquer the small and weak.