Then, of course, the tune will be called.

It's only a question of time; and I am afraid the war will last long enough to give them time.

An early peace is all that can prevent them from driving us at last into war; and I can see no chance of an early peace.

You had as well prepare as fast as the condition of public opinion will permit.
There could be no better measure of the immeasurable moral advance that the United States has made over Europe than the incredulity of our people.

They simply can't comprehend what the Napoleonic legend can do, nor the low political morality of the Continent--of Berlin in particular.