There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.

Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.