If you can't send money, send tobacco.

Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.

My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.