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

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.