When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.

You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man