No Society Is So Precious As That

Long Accustomed To The Use Of European Manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] Are As Incapable Of Returning To Their Habits Of Skinsand Furs As We Are, And Find Their Wants The Less Tolerable As They Are Occasioned By A War [the American Revolution] The Event Of Which Is Scarcely Interesting To Them.

The More A Subject Is Understood, The More Briefly It May Be Explained.

Nobody Can Acquire Honor By Doing What Is Wrong.

Defend Our Liberties And Fashion Into One United People The Multitudes Brought Hither Out Of Many Kindred And Tongues.

A Government Held Together By The Bands Of Reason Only, Requires Much Compromise Of Opinion.