It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about: not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. We are at war with a system, which by its essence, is inimical to all other governments, and which makes peace or war, as peace and war may best contribute to their subversion. It is with an armed doctrine that we are at war. It has, by its essence, a faction of opinion, and of interest, and of enthusiasm, in every country.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.