Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a single hand. The direction of war implies the direction of the common strength; and the power of directing and employing the common strength, forms a usual and essential part in the definition of the executive authority.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

It is evident from the state of the country, from the habits of the people, from the experience we have had on the point itself, that it is impracticable to raise any very considerable sums by direct taxation.

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.

The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.