Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.