Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

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Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

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

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.