At No Period Of Our

A Free, Virtuous, And Enlightened People Must Know Full Well The Great Principles And Causes Upon Which Their Happiness Depends.

Our Relations With The Other Powers Of Europe Have Experienced No Essential Change Since The Last Session.

The American Continents, By The Free And Independent Condition By Which They Have Assumed And Maintained, Are Henceforth Not To Be Considered As Subjects For Future Colonization By Any European Powers.

There Is Every Reason To Believe That Our System Will Soon Attain The Highest Degree Of Perfection Of Which Human Institutions Are Capable.

If It Was Wise, Manly, And Patriotic For Us To Establish A Free Government, It Is Equally Wise To Attend To The Necessary Means Of Its Preservation.