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"The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work."
"The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway."
"In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable."
"Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy."
"Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish."
"They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty."
"If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable."
"I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power."
"Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind."
"[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect."
"To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of."
"Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood."
"In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. . . . And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. . . . Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?"
"To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression."
"Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer."
"Since the death of my father four years ago, our lives have become difficult, and I must help my family."
"My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day."
"Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?"
"There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity."
"There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force, and every man or set of men will in that case cut and carve for themselves; the consequences of which must be deprecated by all classes of men, who are friends to order, and to the peace and happiness of the country."