I have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.

I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

But whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their re- establishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family.