Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.