If You Wish To Avoid Foreign Collision,

If You Wish To Avoid Foreign Collision, You Had Better Abandon The Ocean.

Whether We Assert Our Rights By Sea, Or Attempt Their Maintenance By Land Whithersoever We Turn Ourselves, This Phantom Incessantly Pursues Us. Already Has It Had Too Much Influence On The Councils Of The Nation.

Honor And Good Faith And Justice Are Equally Due From This Country Toward The Weak As Toward The Strong.

Peaceably If We Can, Forcibly If We Must.

Statistics Are No Substitute For Judgment.