I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

The price of barbecue is eternal vigilance.

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.