Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.
George WashingtonIt is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.
George WashingtonWe are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.
George WashingtonPromote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
George WashingtonWe must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
George WashingtonReligious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of โจthe presentโฉ age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind.
George Washington