Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and...
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take...
Ignorance is preferable to error and he is less remote from the truth who...
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of...
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the...
Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform...
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Power is not alluring to pure minds.
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will...
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in...
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics in religion in...
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices a rottenness begins in his...
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects and so will...
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises I advise...
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the...
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and...
Money not morality is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest most unpredictable and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
