Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

My general plan would be to make the States one as to everything connected with foreign nations and several as to everything purely domestic.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.