Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.