There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

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.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.