977  He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.

990  War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

987  The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

1020  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.

996  The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.