"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth, and the Son of Righteousness in triumph amongst all nations."

"As the Coach would be lonesome without the horses—and the horses might repine for want of their Coach (having been wedded together Seven years) you had better take both."

"The unfortunate condition of the persons whose labour in part I employed has been the only unavoidable subject of regret."

"However, political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be e…"

"It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."