The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

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

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

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

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

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.