As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
~Thomas Jefferson
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
~George Washington
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
~Alexander Hamilton
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
~John Adams
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
~Benjamin Franklin
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.