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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
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.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
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 for War.
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.
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.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
