"There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ..." — George Washington

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.