You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

Art is to beauty what honor is to honesty.