The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.

If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.