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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

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.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

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

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

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

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

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.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.