George Washington: “I recommend the same to your consideration, that I may be enabled to give to it such answer as may best comport with the…”

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 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.

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