尊重“他宣布”构成了与这些权力谈判的基础。一种权力对另一种权力的尊重是他们分别彼此造成最小损害自己的彼此伤害的手段的确切比例。
(Respect," he declared, "forms the basis of every negotiation with these powers. The respect which one power has for another, is in the exact proportion of the means which they respectively have of injuring each other with the least detriment to themselves.)