Quotes by Thomas Smith

• I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else.
• In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City.
• It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.
• Suspicions of degrading morale within some units.
• Blame heaped on planners and those said to be responsible for unreliable intelligence.
• Foolish many said; foolish many, many believed.
• No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool.
• The secret to living is giving without expectation of receiving.
• To succeed in life, you need two things: a plan and the courage to follow it.
• Don't believe everything you think.