I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
George WashingtonThe aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . .
George WashingtonTo encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George WashingtonYou will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on the American tage, or any other in the world. We exhibit at present the novel and astonishing spectacle of a whole people deliberating calmly on what form of government will be most conducive to their happiness; and deciding with an unexpected degree of unanimity in favour of a system which they conceive calculated to answer the purpose.
George Washington