... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.

The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.

I have never been a communicant.