If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.