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.