The public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and the measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

United we stand, divided we fall.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

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

Permit me Sir to add, that Policy alone in our Present Circumstances, seems to demand that every Satisfaction which can reasonably be requested, should be given to those Veteran Troops who, through almost every Distress, have been so long and so faithfully serving the States . . .

In modern wars, the longest purse must chiefly determine the event.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

To anticipate and prevent disasters is the part of prudence. I hope your measures will be calculated accordingly.

We should never despair; our situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again.

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