Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to secure happiness of the French people, corresponds with the ardent wishes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States, by its resemblance to their own.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.