To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.

I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.

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.

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.

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

The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.