Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

The integrity of the government is essential to the welfare of the people.

Those who are well informed about their rights and duties make the best citizens.

Each citizen must contribute to the common defense, which is the foundation of our security.

I hope that I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Nothing is more important than preserving the freedom and rights of individuals.

Respect for the law is essential for the preservation of liberty.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation.

Those who have been blessed with the privileges of education should be the guardians of those privileges for the benefit of all.

Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be…

The extraordinary expenses to be incurred in the present year in supporting our foreign intercourse I find will require a provision beyond the ordinary appropriation and the additional $20,000 already granted.

The measures now in operation for taking possession of the posts of Detroit and Michilimackinac render it proper that provision should be made for extending to these places and any others alike circumstanced the civil authority of the…

I lay before you, for your consideration and advice, an explanatory article proposed to be added to the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation between the United States and Great Britain.

I now nominate Jeremiah Wadsworth to be a commissioner to hold a treaty with the Cohnawaga Indians.