I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

One's god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

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