War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.