Nothing Is So Useless As A General

Beards In Olden Times, Were The Emblems Of Wisdom And Piety.

With The Dead There Is No Rivalry, With The Dead There Is No Change.

To Carry The Spirit Of Peace Into War Is A Weak And Cruel Policy. When An Extreme Case Calls For That Remedy Which Is In Its Own Nature Most Violent, And Which, In Such Cases, Is A Remedy Only Because It Is Violent, It Is Idle To Think Of Mitigating And Diluting. Languid War Can Do Nothing Which Negotiation Or Submission Will Do Better: And To Act On Any Other Principle Is, Not To Save Blood And Money, But To Squander Them.

The Conformation Of His Mind Was Such That Whatever Was Little Seemed To Him Great, And Whatever Was Great Seemed To Him Little.

As Freedom Is The Only Safeguard Of Governments, So Are Order And Moderation Generally Necessary To Preserve Freedom.