God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.