"What I fear is not the enemy's strategy, but our own mistakes."

"For we are a democracy, and our laws are equal to all alike in their private disputes, but in public, we are ruled by the will of the majority."

"For it is a common fault in men to despise what they possess, and to desire what they have not."

"Indeed, if I have any superiority, it is this: that I am better able than others to discern what is to be done, and to explain it."

"We do not make our friends by receiving favors, but by conferring them, and we do not make our enemies by receiving injuries, but by inflicting them."