All The States But Our

The Evils Of War Are Great In Their Endurance, And Have A Long Reckoning For Ages To Come.

When Right, I Shall Often Be Thought Wrong By Those Whose Positions Will Not Command A View Of The Whole Ground.

That Government That Governs Least Governs Best.

The Present Generation Has The Same Right Of Self-government Which The Past One Has Exercised For Itself.

I Set Out On This Ground Which I Suppose To Be Self-evident, That The Earth Belongs In Usufruct To The Living. . . . We Seem Not To Perceive That, By The Law Of Nature, One Generation Is To Another As One Independent Nation Is To Another. . . . The Earth Belongs Always To The Living Generations.