It is particularly pleasing to me to be able to announce to you that the revenues which have been established promise to be adequate to their objects, and may be permitted, if no unforeseen exigency occurs, to supersede for the present the necessity of any new burthens upon our constituents.
Washington shares his satisfaction that the established revenues are sufficient to meet governmental needs without imposing new taxes on citizens.
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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.
An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.
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.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
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