"But lest some unlucky event should happen..." - Quote by George Washington

“If you can't send money, send tobacco.”

“The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.”

“A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.”

“I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.”

“Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.”

“Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.”

“All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss.”

“I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.”

“The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.”