If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

People are just as happy as they choose to be.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.

So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.