Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.