Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
George WashingtonThey will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.
George WashingtonFreemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.
George WashingtonA small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle... Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good. It is vain to exclaim against the depravity of human nature on this account; the fact is so, the experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure, change the constitution of man, before we can make it otherwise. No institution, not built on the presumptive truth of these maxims can succeed.
George Washington