They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law. . . . On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein.

I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree.