"The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."

"The only security a free people can have for the faithful observance of their constitution and laws, is to be found in a right of taxation."

"The natural right of a man to impart his ideas to others is as sacred as his right to think at all."

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever."

"I have looked on man, in the course of my life, as a chemical analysis might look on a compound substance."