A bad war is fought with a good mind.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.