Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.

No nation can rise to its full moral maturity so long as it subjects a segment of its citizenry on the basis of race or color.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits.