If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.