...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.