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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready...

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

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