“To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so, is something worse.”

“To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.”

“In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.”

“Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.”

“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”

“America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.”

“Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.”