...he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind...The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.