Traveling Makes Men Wiser, But Less Happy.

If A Nation Expects To Be Ignorant And Free, In A State Of Civilization, It Expects What Never Was And Never Will Be.

I Like The Dreams Of The Future Better Than The History Of The Past.

The Interests Of A Nation, When Well Understood, Will Be Found To Coincide With Their Moral Duties.

The Last Hope Of Human Liberty In This World Rests On Us.

You Have Not Been Mistaken In Supposing My Views And Feeling To Be In Favor Of The Abolition Of War. Of My Dispos[i]tion To Maintain Peace Until Its Condition Shall Be Made Less Tolerable Than That Of War Itself, The World Has Had Proofs, And More, Perhaps, Than It Has Approved. I Hope It Is Practicable, By Improving The Mind And Morals Of Society, To Lessen The Dispos[i]tion To War; But Of Its Abolition I Despair.