“War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.”
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It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.