Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of… - Thomas Paine

for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.

Whatever the form or constitution of government may be, it ought to have no other object than the general happiness.

Though in a plan of which justice and humanity are the foundation principles, interest ought not to be admitted into the calculation, yet it is always of advantage to the establishment of any plan to show that it is beneficial as a matter of interest. The success of any proposed plan submitted to public consideration must finally depend on the numbers interested in supporting it, united with the justice of its principles.

Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest.