It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.