Now that at last they are beginning to prevail, there is increased reason to celebrate the day on which the mighty Declaration was made, and new occasion for triumph in the rays of ravishing light and glory.

I have heard them say, if Great Britain could build a wall of brass a thousand feet high all along the sea-coast, at low-water mark, we can live and be happy.

English is destined to be in the next and succeeding centuries more generally the language of the world than Latin was in the last or French is in the present age.

You must know I have undertaken to prophesy that English will be the most respectable language in the world; and the most universally read and spoken, in the next century, if not before the close of this.

Through England and the United States it has become the language of commerce, which sooner or later must embrace the globe.

Yes, but if America becomes free, she will some day give the law to Europe.

The principal interest of America for many centuries to come will be landed, and her chief occupation agriculture.

If Europe cannot prevent, or rather if any particular nations of Europe cannot prevent, the independence of America, then the sooner her independence is acknowledged, the better,--the less likely she will be to become warlike…

Here is foretold nothing less than that our system of government is to embrace the whole continent of North America.

A prospect into futurity in America is like contemplating the heavens through the telescopes of Herschel.

The American Revolution was not a common event.

Its effects and consequences have already been awful over a great part of the globe.

But nothing in his career was more memorable than his foresight and courage with regard to the English Colonies.

The remarkable fame which he reached during life has ceased, and his voluminous writings slumber in oblivion, except, perhaps, a single one, which for a while played a great part, and by its prophetic spirit vindicates a place in our…

The subject was interesting at the time, but the peculiar treatment and the open assault upon existing order gave the work zest and popularity.

The ancient assailant of kings now called for “the tutelary protection of the royal authority.” The early cant was exchanged for recant.

Perhaps then it will be seen that America is favorable to genius, to the creative arts of peace and of society.

A new Olympus, an Arcadia, an Athens, a new Greece, on the Continent, or in the archipelago which surrounds it, will give birth, perhaps, to Homers, Theocrituses, and, above all, Anacreons.

Perhaps another Newton will rise in the new Britain.

It is from English America, no doubt, that the first ray of the sciences will shoot forth, if they are to appear at last under a sky so long clouded.

By a singular contrast with the ancient world, where the arts passed from the South toward the North, in the new we shall see the North enlighten the South.

Break the knot which binds the ancient Britain to the new; soon the Northern Colonies will have more strength alone than they possessed in their union with the mother country.

Everything tends to that,--both the progress of good in the new hemisphere, and the progress of evil in the old.

Alas! the sudden and rapid decline of our morals and our strength, the crimes of kings and the woes of peoples, will render even universal that fatal catastrophe which is to detach one world from the other.

The mine is prepared beneath the foundations of our rocking empires.… In proportion as our peoples are growing weak and all succumbing one to another, population and agriculture are increasing in America.