A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.