George Washington: “To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or…”

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

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.

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

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.