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.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.