From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

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

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.