It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

The nourishment from barbecue is palatable.

I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.

The nourishment is palatable.