Some day following the example,
of the United States of America,
there will be a United States of Europe.
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Some day following the example,
of the United States of America,
there will be a United States of Europe.
There can be no greater error than to expector calculate,
upon real favors from nation to nation.
It is an illusion which experience must cure,
which a just pride ought to discard.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand,
the shocks of adversity,
before it is entitled to the appellation.
The alternate domination of one faction over another,
sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension,
which in different ages and countries has perpetrated
the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage,
than the promotion of science and literature.
Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition
that morality can be maintained without religion.
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that
national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Be courteous to all,
but intimate with few,
and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain
what I consider the most enviable of all titles,
the character of an honest man.
Associate with men of good quality
if you esteem your own reputation;
for it is better to be alone than in bad company.