There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.