When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.

Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.

Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection... and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion ; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.

What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.