Hope Is The Most Treacherous

The Minority Of A Country Is Never Known To Agree, Except In Its Efforts To Reduce And Oppress The Majority.

History, Like Love, Is So Apt To Surround Her Heroes With An Atmosphere Of Imaginary Brightness.

It Is A Misfortune That Necessity Has Induced Men To Accord Greater License To This Formidable Engine, In Order To Obtain Liberty, Than Can Be Borne With Less Important Objects In View; For The Press, Like Fire, Is An Excellent Servant, But A Terrible Master.

It Is Seldom Men Think Of Death In The Pride Of Their Health And Strength.

At No Period Of The Naval History Of The World, Is It Probable That Marines Were More Important Than During The War Of The Revolution.