"The period of debate is closed. Arms,..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.”

“Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.”

“If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.”

“Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.”

“Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife”

“I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.”

“Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.”

“To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.”

“Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.”