Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.

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

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights, to discern and provide against invasions of them, to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority, between burdens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society.