Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant...it is important that the sovereign--the people--should possess intelligence.
