So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.

In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

Whatever is unknown is magnified.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.