I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation.