George Washington said...

Satisfied, therefore, that you have sincerely wished and endeavored to avert war, and exhausted to the last drop the cup...

I must not conceal from you my earnest wish that the choice had fallen upon a man less declined in years and better qual...

Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and i...

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.