They must know that the strict performance of treaties is the best and safest policy; they must know that good faith alone can inspire respectability to a nation; that a pusillanimous conduct provokes insult, and brings upon a country those very dangers which it weakly means to avert.
"There is indeed too much reason to fear that you are involved in the general conspiracy of tyrants against liberty.

They never will, they never can forgive you for having been the first to proclaim the rights of man.

But you will force them to respect you by pursuing with firmness the only path which is consistent with your national honour and dignity.
"The cause of France is the cause of all mankind, and no nation is more deeply interested than you are in its success.

Whatever fate awaits her, you are ultimately to share.

But the cause of liberty is great and it shall prevail.
"And if France, under a despotic yoke, has been able so successfully to assert your rights, they can never again be endangered while she is at liberty to exert, in your support, that powerful arm which now defies the combined efforts of a whole world." While these exertions were successfully making to give increased force, and a wider extent, to opinions which might subvert the system adopted by the executive, Mr.Jay, the chief justice of the United States, and Mr.King, a senator representing the state, arrived in New York from Philadelphia.