To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

A good government must be founded on the principle of justice and liberty for all its citizens.

An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.

It is with peculiar satisfaction I can say, that prompted by a high sense of duty in my attendance on public worship, I have been gratified by the liberal and interesting discourses delivered in your Churches.

It is generally agreed that some cavalry, either militia or regular, will be necessary.

Under these circumstances, to discharge the dragoons does not seem to comport with economy.

It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be conveyed to them.

If the bill passes into a law, the two companies of light dragoons will be from that moment legally out of service.

I lay before you for your consideration a treaty which has been negotiated and concluded on the 29th day of June last by Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, and George Clymer, commissioners on behalf of the United States, with the Creek…

Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and its approbation is my abundant reward.

To such men I shall cheerfully yield the palm of genius and talents to serve our common country.

None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

To be an American citizen is to be a member of a nation founded on principles of justice, liberty, and equality.

Good government is built on the principles of justice and equality.

A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

A nation is only as strong as its moral character.

Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.