Letters Are Not The First,

We Did Not Raise Armies For Glory Or For Conquest.

Being Myself A Warm Zealot For The Attainment & Enjoiment By All Mankind Of As Much Liberty As Each May Exercise Without Injury To The Equal Liberty Of His Fellow Citizens, I Have Lamented That In France The Endeavors To Obtain This Should Have Been Attended With The Effusion Of So Much Blood.

I Believe In Good Luck, And The Harder I Work And The More I Believe In Myself, The Luckier I Get.

We Must Meet Our Duty And Convince The World That We Are Just Friends And Brave Enemies.

If The Children Are Untaught, Their Ignorance And Vices Will In Future Life Cost Us Much Dearer In Their Consequences Than It Would Have Done In Their Correction By A Good Education.