I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education. Although there are many who escape the danger of contracting principles unfavorable to republican governments, yet we ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds from being too strongly and too early prejudiced in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.