I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
George WashingtonUndertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.
George WashingtonArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington