Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.