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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

National honor is the national property of the highest value.

The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.