Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

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.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.