"No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin."

"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."

"It is well known that when I was in the service of my country, I never spared myself; and I do not mean to do it now."

"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…"

"The consideration that I was not a professional man, and that I had less pretensions to it than many, was a powerful argument against my undertaking the command."