War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.