Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George WashingtonIf we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George WashingtonSubmit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.
George WashingtonThe common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
George WashingtonOne thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.
George WashingtonWhen Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among such People, as compose the bulk of an Army, that they are influenced by any other principles than those of Interest, is to look for what never did, and I fear never will happen
George Washington