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George Washington
Honesty in States [archaic, governments], as well as in individuals, will ever be found the soundest policy.
Nations are not influenced, as individuals may be, by disinterested friendships; but, when it is their interest to live in amity, we have little reason to apprehend any rupture.
There is nothing so likely to produce peace, as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances, for extraordinary emergencies.
I hope, some day, we shall become a Storehouse and Granary for the World.
Good measures should always be executed, as soon as they are conceived, and circumstances will admit.
The Constitution is the guide which I never can abandon.
A spirit of accommodation was the basis of the present Constitution.
I am under more apprehensions on account of our own dissensions, than of the efforts of the enemy.
I trust the goodness of the cause, and the exertions of the people, and Divine protection, will give us that honorable peace for which we are contending.
A spirit of equal liberty appears fast to be gaining ground every where; which must afford satisfaction to every friend of mankind.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
That the Government [which the US Founder's created], though not actually perfect, is one of the best in the world, I have little doubt.
Let us have a Government, by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured.
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all Government.
The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested on our behalf.
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it [slavery].
The last thing I shall mention, is first of importance and that is, to avoid gaming.
To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion.
