[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.

The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.

To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.

It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.