Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people—the purest source and original fountain of all power.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of Government are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

My movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.