George Washington

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

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

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it.

Heaven itself has ordained the right.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.