“… cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible…avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt.…it is essential that you…bear in mind, that towards the payments of debts there must be Revenue, that to have Revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised, which are not…inconvenient and unpleasant…”
“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world …”
“… avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.”