Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

They shall not be expected to acknowledge us until we have acknowledged ourselves.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.