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

How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.