If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?

Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.

Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

Only the man who says no is free

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas.

Those of us who always abhorred slavery as an atheistical iniquity, gladly we join in the exulting chorus of humanity over its downfall.