I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Justice is immortal, eternal, and immutable, like God Himself; and the development of law is only then a progress when it is directed towards those principles which like Him, are eternal; and whenever prejudice or error succeeds in establishing in customary law any doctrine contrary to eternal justice.