Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among such People, as compose the bulk of an Army, that they are influenced by any other principles than those of Interest, is to look for what never did, and I fear never will happen

We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.