It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.

Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my prayers & efforts shall be cordially distributed to the support of that we have so happily established. It is indeed an animating thought that, while we are securing the rights of ourselves & our posterity, we are pointing out the way to struggling nations who wish, like us, to emerge from their tyrannies also. Heaven help their struggles, and lead them, as it has done us, triumphantly thro' them.