[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings, which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those, who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.