Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think well if they attack one personally it means they have not a single political argument left.

Like the old soldier of the ballad I now close my military career and just fade away an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

A day an hour of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage