Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
George WashingtonI have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
George WashingtonThere is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.
George WashingtonThe great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.
George WashingtonThe Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
George WashingtonNo people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency
George Washington