Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.