I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.