"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."

"The foundations of our empire were not laid in the gloomy age of ignorance and superstition; but at an epocha when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any fo…"

"I have always walked a straight line, and I have always spoken my sentiments without fear or affection."

"how unkind it was of Noah now I have mentioned his name to suffer such a brood of Vermin to get a birth in the Ark"

"However, political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be e…"