Category: Thought

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

I have no lust after power but wish with as much fervency as any Man upon this wide extended Continent, for an opportunity of turning the Sword into a plow share.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.

I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.

We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do.

Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.