Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.