Light and liberty go together.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

The States should be watchful to note every material usurpation on their rights; to denounce them as they occur in the most peremptory terms; to protest against them as wrongs to which our present submission shall be considered, not as acknowledgments or precedents of rights, but as a temporary yielding to the lesser evil, until their accumulation shall overweigh that of separation.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.