War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.
Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.
He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.
Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.
An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.