My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep the United States free from political connections with every other country; to see that they may be independent of all and under the influence of none.

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

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.