The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another'; a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Battles, unlike bargains, are rarely discussed in society.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.