The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.