I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army. Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible; and the same remedy will make us so.

The same facts impress us differently.