Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

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.

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.