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

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.

The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.

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

In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.