Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.