Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
George WashingtonJealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . .
George WashingtonExtensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.
George WashingtonMay the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah.
George Washington