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

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

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

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.