It Is Not Strange... To Mistake Change

Nations, Like Individuals In A State Of Nature, Are Equal And Independent, Possessing Certain Rights And Owing Certain Duties To Each Other.

The Man Who Can Look Upon A Crisis Without Being Willing To Offer Himself Upon The Altar Of His Country Is Not For Public Trust.

God Knows That I Detest Slavery, But It Is An Existing Evil, For Which We Are Not Responsible, And We Must Endure It, Till We Can Get Rid Of It Without Destroying The Last Hope Of Free Government In The World.

It Would Be Judicious To Act With Magnanimity Towards A Prostrate Foe.

Let Us Remember That Revolutions Do Not Always Establish Freedom.