This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which above all things should be avoided, and in many instances would compel men to a mode of Worship which they do not profess.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.