We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good.

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.