The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.

It was hard graft all the way and a good result in the end.

Here lies the body of my good horse, The General. For years he bore me around the circuit of my practice and all that time he never made a blunder. Would that his master could say the same.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.