There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy





If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.




The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period




To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace



George Washington