"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."

"The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution."

"Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments."

"I am a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief."

"War, like other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perseverance, by time, and by practice."