I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world. – George Washington
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. – George Washington
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. – George Washington
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. – George Washington