Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George WashingtonThere was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.
George WashingtonReason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
George WashingtonI am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.
George WashingtonIt is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
George WashingtonShould any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.
George Washington