[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels.