Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.