George Washington: “There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.”

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

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

I must not conceal from you my earnest wish that the choice had fallen upon a man less declined in years and better qualified to encounter the usual vicissitudes of war.

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