Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege…

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punish…

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attemp…

Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe - and there never will be under a Ford administration... The United States does not concede that those countrie…