George Washington: “Freedom is the right to do anything that does not infringe upon the rights of others.”

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.

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.