The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes.

Discipline is the soul of an army.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally to be expected from them in return, that they will [demonstrate] the innocence of their lives and the beneficence of their actions; for no man, who is profligate in his morals, or a bad member of the civil community, can possibly be a true Christian, or a credit to his own religious society.

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

The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.