War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.
Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.
The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence.