Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.

A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.