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My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.
Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.
To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.
The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.
System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.
A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.
To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.
To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.
Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.
Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.
My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.
[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.
It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.
The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.
I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.
Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.
I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.
Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.
Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.