George Washington — "They (Indians) are wolves who seek only opportunities to destroy."

"Experience teaches us that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the most simple and obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted …"

"It is needless to premise, that my table is large enough to hold the ladies; of this they had ocular proof yesterday."

"However, political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be e…"

"Promote then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge."

"The consideration that human happiness and the preservation of our republican institutions are so essentially linked together, that there is no room for doubt or hesitation."