"Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial..." - Quote by George Washington

“Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for your self or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature.”

“[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.”

“There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.”

“Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.”

“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-”

“Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.”

“When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects”

“Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.”

“All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.”