I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George WashingtonEvery day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
George WashingtonTo anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.
George WashingtonI now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection... and finally, 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 pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks 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 Washington