"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."

"There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature."

"No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States."

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

"whether he was a whig or a tory?"