The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.