It will rest with Congress to consider and determine whether further inducements shall be held out for entering into the military service of the United States in order to complete the establishment authorized by law.
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A good government must be founded on the principle of justice and liberty for all its citizens.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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.
An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people.
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