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.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

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.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.