Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.