Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.