A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

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

The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

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

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.

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

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.