Z "przemówienia pożegnalnego" do ludności Stanów Zjednoczonych. Wyraża tendencje izolacjonistyczne USA trwające do XX wieku. Wygłoszone 17 września 1796
Z listu do Jonathana Jacksona (2 września 1780). Ang.: "There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."
Ang.: "We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space."