Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail.