War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.