I therefore nominate M, de Poiery to be a captain by brevet.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people—the purest source and original fountain of all power.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of Government are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

My movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

United we stand, divided we fall.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Permit me Sir to add, that Policy alone in our Present Circumstances, seems to demand that every Satisfaction which can reasonably be requested, should be given to those Veteran Troops who, through almost every Distress, have been so long…

In modern wars, the longest purse must chiefly determine the event.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

To anticipate and prevent disasters is the part of prudence. I hope your measures will be calculated accordingly.