"There never was a law yet made,..." - Quote by George Washington

“Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.”

“I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.”

“Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.”

“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.”

“The law is an ass, an idiot.”

“Some persons hold that, while it is proper for the lawgiver to encourage and exhort men to virtue on moral grounds, in the expectation that those who have had a virtuous moral upbringing will respond, yet he is bound to impose chastisement and penalties on the disobedient and ill-conditioned, and to banish the incorrigible out of the state altogether. For (they argue) although the virtuous man, who guides his life by moral ideals, will be obedient to reason, the base, whose desires are fixed on pleasure, must be chastised by pain, like a beast of burden.”

“If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.”

“If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."”

“An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.”