The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

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

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.