George Washington: “Government must be responsive to the needs and wishes of its 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.

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

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.