George Washington (Author of George Washington's Rules of Civility)

It is impossible to govern the universe without the aid of a Supreme Being.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

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

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

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

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

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.