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{{quote|National honor is the national property of the highest value.
|''First Inaugural Address'' (4 March 1817).}}
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{{quote|What was the origin of our slave population? The evil commenced when we were in our Colonial state, but acts were passed by our Colonial Legislature, prohibiting the importation, of more slaves, into the Colony. These were rejected by the Crown. We declared our independence, and the prohibition of a further importation was among the first acts of state sovereignty. Virginia was the first state which instructed her delegates to declare the colonies independent. She braved all dangers. From Quebec to Boston, and from Boston to Savannah, Virginia shed the blood of her sons. No imputation then can be cast upon her in this matter. She did all that was in her power to do, to prevent the extension of slavery, and to mitigate its evils.
|[https://books.google.com/books?id{{=}}R9ctAAAAYAAJ&pg{{=}}PA78&dq{{=}}%22The+evil+commenced+when+we+were+in+our+Colonial+state%22&hl{{=}}en&sa{{=}}X&ved{{=}}0CD8Q6AEwBmoVChMIwM7FxfHTxwIViPM-Ch3fiQrs#v{{=}}onepage&q{{=}}%22The%20evil%20commenced%20when%20we%20were%20in%20our%20Colonial%20state%22&f{{=}}false Speech in the Virginia State Convention for altering the Constitution] (2 November 1829).}}
===''[[w:Monroe Doctrine|The Monroe Doctrine]]'' (2 December 1823)===
{{quote|The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
|[http://books.google.com/books?id{{=}}a6QZAAAAYAAJ&q{{=}}%22The+American+continents+by+the+free+and+independent+condition+which+they+have+assumed+and+maintain+are+henceforth+not+to+be+considered+as+subjects+for+future+colonization+by+any+European+power%22&pg{{=}}PA11#v{{=}}onepage ''The Monroe Doctrine''].}}
{{quote|In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.}}
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