"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."

"The Army, as usual, are without Pay; and a great part of the Soldiery without Shirts; and tho' the patience of them is equally thread bear, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries."

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth, and the Son of Righteousness in triumph amongst all nations."

"To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones."

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities,…"