A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.