War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights, to discern and provide against invasions of them, to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.