We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

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

It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.

I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.