To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.