"Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."

"I had rather be in my grave than in the most splendid situation, if I could not serve my country with honor."

"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,…"

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

"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"