Individual Liberty Is Individual Power.

All Men Profess Honesty As Long As They Can. To Believe All Men Honest Would Be Folly. To Believe None So Is Something Worse.

I Want The Seals Of Power And Place, The Ensigns Of Command, Charged By The People's Unbought Grace, To Rule My Native Land. Nor Crown, Nor Scepter Would I Ask But From My Country's Will, By Day, By Night, To Ply The Task Her Cup Of Bliss To Fill.

To Live Without Having A Cicero And A Tacitus At Hand Seems To Me As If It Was Aprivation Of One Of My Limbs.

Occasional War Is One Of The Rigorous Instruments In The Hands Of Providence To Give Tone To The Character Of Nations.

There Are Three Points Of Doctrine The Belief Of Which Forms The Foundation Of All Morality. The First Is The Existence Of God; The Second Is The Immortality Of The Human Soul; And The Third Is A Future State Of Rewards And Punishments. Suppose It Possible For A Man To Disbelieve Either Of These Three Articles Of Faith And That Man Will Have No Conscience, He Will Have No Other Law Than That Of The Tiger Or The Shark. The Laws Of Man May Bind Him In Chains Or May Put Him To Death, But They Never Can Make Him Wise, Virtuous, Or Happy.