I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
George WashingtonAssociate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonI use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.
George WashingtonWe should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George WashingtonThis spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy.
George Washington