"In a very short time, the monarchy will be so firmly established in Mexico, that one will only be surprised not to ha…"

"If the Mexicans second the lofty views of their new ruler, soon Mexico will have recovered its former splendor and so…"

"Will make good soldiers, very devoted to the government of Emperor Maximilian."

"The enterprise that Archduke Maximilian will attempt remains what it was on the first day, an adventure where, beside…"

"Will you believe that I am not convinced that all the Mexican debt holders will be paid, that the Archduke will obtai…"

"but we must still expect long local resistance on distant points, struggles with bodies of supporters much more numer…"

"It remains to be seen how far Mexico spontaneously and voluntarily rallied to the new empire and whether the republic…"

"The day when the conflict of the two belligerent Americans is ended by the defeat of one or the other, or by the reco…"

"Certainly, in such conditions there is enough to seduce those of our young officers whom Belgian neutrality condemns …"

"Whatever opinion one forms of the enterprise to which Archduke Maximilian has just devoted his life, it is not possib…"