Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.

We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.