Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

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

Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.