Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

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.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.