Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.