Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment. The unity of Government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty, which you so highly prize.

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. Satisfied, that…

It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you shou…

A conflation of the last two quotes has also sometimes been reported as his last statement: 'It is well. I die hard but am not afraid to go'

'The Lessons of Afghanistan: Bipartisan Support for Freedom Fighters Pays Off,' Policy Review, Spring 1987, by Michael Johns.

Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race. I do not stand here as advocate for any partisan cause, for the issues are fund…

And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or dem…