It is well to be independent also well not to be neutral.

Fear must rule in a despotism.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

I am a straightforward man.