This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!

The whole drama of the world is such tragedy that I am weary of the spectacle.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part will require a purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues, or there will be no blessings.

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

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