I believe the Indian then to be in body and mind equal to the white man. - Thomas Jefferson

Our opinion here is that that place has been so deeply concerned in smuggling, that if it wants it is because it has illegally sent away what it ought to have retained for its own consumption.

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.

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.