Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
The power of making war often prevents it.
I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.