To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.