Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

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.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

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

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.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.