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

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry