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.

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

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will.