George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.