The safety of the United States under divine protection ought to rest on the basis of systematic and solid arrangements, exposed as little as possible to the hazards of fortuitous circumstances.
Third Annual Address to Congress
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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 Indians.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.
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