Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

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Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.