“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.”

“To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.”

“Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.”

“All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.”

“Of all calamities this is the greatest.”

“The smaller the drink the clearer the head.”