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

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

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

In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.