"'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it."
- George Washington
"I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any p..."
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
"For brick and mortar breed filth and crime,With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats;And men are whithered before their primeBy the curse paved in with the lanes and streets.And lungs are poisoned an..."
- George Washington Sears