“The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.”

“Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.”

“Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?”

“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”

“War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.”

“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”