They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.