A Determination Never To Do

War Has Been Avoided From A Due Sense Of The Miseries, And The Demoralization It Produces, And Of The Superior Blessings Of A State Of Peace And Friendship With All Mankind.

Dependence Leads To Subservience.

No Nation Was Ever Drunk When Wine Was Cheap.

In Every Government On Earth Is Some Trace Of Human Weakness, Some Germ Of Corruption And Degeneracy, Which Cunning Will Discover, And Wickedness Insensibly Open, Cultivate And Improve.

Law Is Often The Tyrant's Will, And Always So When It Violates The Right Of An Individual.