I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

Time makes more converts than reason.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.