1From George Washington to the Congregational Ministers of New Haven, 17 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
The Kind congratulations, contained in your address, claim and receive my grateful and affectionate thanks—respecting, as I do, the favorable opinions of Men distinguished for science and piety, it would be false delicacy to disavow the satisfaction, which I derive from their approbation of my public services, and private conduct....security of temporal peace, and the sure mean of attaining...