It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in religious opinion. Time has at length revealed the true remedy. Every relaxation of narrow and rigorous policy, wherever it has been tried, has been found to assuage the disease.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.