A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world.

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

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.

The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.