I feel like God wants me to run for president. I can’t explain it, but I sense my country is going to need me. Something is going to happen. I know it won’t be easy on my family, but God wants me to do it.
The decisions we make in Washington have a direct impact on the people in our country, obviously.
Anybody who is in a position to serve this country ought to understand the consequences of words.
It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country’s welfare.
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.
I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping.
I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
To stand well in the estimation of one’s country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.
The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.
We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty.
I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.