What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Getting it done is my reward.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.