Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

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.

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory