Jon Gery

The real man smiles in trouble,gathers strength from distress,and grows brave by reflection.

Those who accept the blessings of freedom must,like men,undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

When my country into which I had just set my foot,was set on fire about my ears,it was time to stir.It was time for every man to stir.

To establish any mode to abolish war,however advantageous it might be to Nations,would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end;it has but one thing certain,and that is to increase taxes.

Form is condensed emptiness.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity ,in the last resort.