I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.