George Washington: “Democracy requires the active participation of its citizens.”

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

Justice is the foundation of all laws and the cornerstone of a just society.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

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, Andrew Pickens, and George Clymer, commissioners on behalf of the United States, with the Creek…