Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living, or the dead?

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.