It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
George WashingtonThe tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
George WashingtonThe foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.
George Washington