It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

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

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections.