"Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now."

"For we have not acquired our power by force, but by justice."

"For we are the only people who deem him that takes no part in public business not as unambitious but as useless."

"Our government is not copied from those of our neighbors: we are an example to them rather than they to us."

"We are not only admirable at home, but also abroad."