Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.

I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.