While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The smell rewards the care.