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We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.

The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization.

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

But I would have executed much greater things, had not government always opposed my exertions, and placed others in situations which would have suited my talents.

With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.

First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.