Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

There can be no stability or peace either within nations or between nations except under laws and moral standards adhered to by all.

We rejoice especially in the prosperity, the stability and the independence of all of the American Republics.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits.

Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society.