Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.

Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.