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

I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

We are the friends of liberty everywhere, but the guarrantors of only our own.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.