“Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.”

“Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace”

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

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

“It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice”

“On every question of construction (of the Constitution) let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”