Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Delay is preferable to error.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make.