The Americans from the beginning went in a spirit of revolt; the seed of disaffection was in every Puritan bosom.

We from the beginning went in a spirit of amity, forgetting nothing, disavowing nothing, to plant the flag with our fortunes.

We took our very Constitution, our very chart of national life, from England--her laws, her liberty, her equity were good enough for us.

We have lived by them, some of us have died by them...and, thank God, we were long poor...
"And this Republic," he went on hotly, "this Republic that menaces our national life with commercial extinction, what past has she that is comparable?
The daughter who left the old stock to be the light woman among nations, welcoming all comers, mingling her pure blood, polluting her lofty ideals until it is hard indeed to recognize the features and the aims of her honourable youth..." Allowance will be made for the intemperance of his figure.

He believed himself, you see, at the bar for the life of a nation.
"...Let us not hesitate to announce ourselves for the Empire, to throw all we are and all we have into the balance for that great decision.
The seers of political economy tell us that if the stars continue to be propitious, it is certain that a day will come which will usher in a union of the Anglo-Saxon nations of the world.