George Washington: “Patriotism requires us to act with integrity and honor.”

A good government must be founded on the principle of justice and liberty for all its citizens.

I can not express how greatly affected I am at this new proof of public confidence.

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.

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.