Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities,...
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead i...
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
LIBERTY, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production, but the manner in which that performance has been introduced to the army, the effect...
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."
Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of...
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it.