The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.

Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.

The 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.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence... To Mrs Washington's travelling expenses in coming to and returning from my winter quarters, the money to defray that taken from my private purse: 1064 pounds, one shilling.