"In executing the duties of my present..." - Quote by George Washington

“I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.”

“The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.”

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

“Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.”

“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'”

“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.”

“Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.”

“Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.”

“The contrived language and the flattering attitude rarely come with the virtue.”