George Washington: “Herewith I transmit, for your consideration and advice, a treaty of peace and amity.”

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

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.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

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