There Is No Act, However Virtuous, For

I Have Great Confidence In The Common Sense Of Mankind In General.

There Is Preparing, I Hope, Under The Auspices Of Heaven, A Way For A Total Emancipation.

The Whole Body Of The Nation Is The Sovereign Legislative, Judiciary, And Executive Power For Itself. The Inconvenience Of Meeting To Exercise These Powers In Person, And Their Inaptitude To Exercise Them, Induce Them To Appoint Special Organs To Declare Their Legislative Will, To Judge And To Execute It. It Is The Will Of The Nation Which Makes The Law Obligatory.

If The Present Congress Errs In Too Much Talking, How Can It Be Otherwise In A Body To Which The People Send One Hundred And Fifty Lawyers, Whose Trade It Is To Question Everything, Yield Nothing, And Talk By The Hour?

Peace Is That Brief Glorious Moment In History When Everybody Stands Around Reloading.