"For you are angry with me, who have no hand in the matter, and with yourselves too, if I may say so, for assenting to my counsels and sharing in my errors."

"We place our trust not in preparations and stratagems, but in our own native courage."

"Indeed, if I have any superiority, it is this: that I am better able than others to discern what is to be done, and to explain it."

"The admiration of the present and succeeding ages will be ours, since we have not shrunk from any toil or danger."

"For we are a democracy, and our laws are equal to all alike in their private disputes."