The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough.

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

The National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form