Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.