George Washington actually said...

I lay before you for your consideration a treaty which has been negotiated and concluded on the 29th day of June last by Benjamin Hawkins, A...

To such men I shall cheerfully yield the palm of genius and talents to serve our common country.

None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.

Those services, and greater had I possessed ability to render them, were due to the unanimous calls of my country, and its approbation is my...