I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of hatred and revenge which they sow with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain.