To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.