Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.