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

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

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.

There is every reason to believe that our system will soon attain the highest degree of perfection of which human institutions are capable.

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.

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