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.

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

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

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.

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 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.