Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions I beg you.
If men make war in slavish obedience to rules they will fail.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually take place no matter by whom brought on we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without we must try to extinguish it.