The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.
George WashingtonThis Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
George WashingtonThe pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.
George WashingtonWhat was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.
George Washington