Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect.