Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.