It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.