George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.