It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.
Never use one word when two will do.
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself
Resisting tyranny is obeying God
I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.