Ministers and merchants love nobody.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.

So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.