A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.