George Washington — "I am embarked on a wide ocean, boundless in its prospect, and in which, perhaps,…"

"If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hand of God."

"I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painter's pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck, and sit like patience on a monument whilst they are delineating the lines of my face. It is a proof am…"

"If we mean to support the liberty and independence which we have so gloriously struggled for, we must be more virtuous and become more industrious."

"It is much to be feared that the same motives which have hitherto retarded the abolition of slavery, will continue to operate."

"Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."