If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

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

Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.