Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonYour love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.
George WashingtonNothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.
George WashingtonOurs is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.
George Washington