George Washington: “The protection of individual rights is the cornerstone of a free society.”

True patriotism is not just a feeling but a commitment to the well-being of our country.

Satisfied, therefore, that you have sincerely wished and endeavored to avert war, and exhausted to the last drop the cup of reconciliation, we can with pure hearts appeal to Heaven for the justice of our cause.

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.