What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

A government of our own is our natural right

I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.