I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
George WashingtonSubmit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.
George WashingtonSleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.
George WashingtonLet me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?
George WashingtonThe spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.
George Washington