It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf, for the security of their natural rights, and the protection of their own property.

The birthday of a new world is at hand.

The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.

These are the times that try men's souls.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.