George Washington: “I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”

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

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

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 finally determined to accept the commission of Commander in Chief of the armies of the United States.