If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Our bills shall not be killed.