Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

The American continents, by the free and independent condition by which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.