"An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people."
"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 ..."
"Under these circumstances, to discharge the dragoons does not seem to comport with economy."
"It will be inconvenient and injurious to the public to dismiss the light dragoons as soon as notice of the law can be conveyed to them."
"It is generally agreed that some cavalry, either militia or regular, will be necessary."
"If the bill passes into a law, the two companies of light dragoons will be from that moment legally out of service."
"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..."
"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 abundant reward."
"None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal."
"To such men I shall cheerfully yield the palm of genius and talents to serve our common country."
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hand..."
"A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."