War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.
Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.
Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.
An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.
Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.