National honor is national property of the highest value.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

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.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

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 best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

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.