Tranquility is the old man's milk.

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.