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 Churches.

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.

If the bill passes into a law, the two companies of light dragoons will be from that moment legally out of service.

Under these circumstances, to discharge the dragoons does not seem to comport with economy.

It is generally agreed that some cavalry, either militia or regular, will be necessary.

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…

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.

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.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid on the solid basis of the people's will.

A true patriot is one who works for the common good, not personal gain.

True liberty is found in the respect for the rights of others.

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.

A nation is only as strong as its moral character.

Let us never forget that government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.