There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washington spoke about the importance of morality to the country's well-being: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. . . . And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. . . . Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue?

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.