I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation . . . . Our interest will be to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off all its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent to whatever they may choose to bring into our ports, and asking the same in theirs.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.