We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society, by acting honestly towards all, benevolently to those who fall within our way, respecting sacredly their rights, bodily and mental, and cherishing especially their freedom of conscience, as we value our own.

We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.