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 myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.