A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

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

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

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.

I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protection which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor.

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