Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.