People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone

You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war. Of my dispos[i]tion to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself, the world has had proofs, and more, perhaps, than it has approved. I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the dispos[i]tion to war; but of its abolition I despair.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.