The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.

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

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.