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.

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 tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.

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.

The brave are parsimonious of threats.

It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.