In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

National honor is national property of the highest value.

If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

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.

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.