Smaller societies must prepare the way for greater.
I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.
Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.
Being a politician makes your hair turn white.
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest.
In time of peace, prepare for war.
Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck’t.
The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.
We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.
I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.
I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.
Always speak the truth.
The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.
All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World.
The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.