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"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a
uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest
require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them
independent on others for essential, particularly for military, supplies."
- Speech in the United States Congress, January 8, 1790
"Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
- Speech in the United States Congress, January 8, 1790
"All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings
of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may
be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity."
- Letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham, January 9, 1790
"In our progress toward political happiness my station is new; and if I may
use the expression, I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part
of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent." - Letter
to Catherine Macaulay Graham, January 9, 1790
"I can truly say I had rather be at Mount Vernon with a friend or two about
me, than to be attended at the Seat of Government by the Officers of State
and the Representatives of every Power in Europe." - Letter to David
Stuart, June 15, 1790
"I had rather be at Mount Vernon with a friend or two about me, than to be
attended at the seat of government by the officers of state and the
representatives of every power in Europe." - Letter to David Stuart,
June 15, 1790
"It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence
of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent
natural rights, for happily, the Government of the United States, which
gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only
that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good
citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support." - Letter
to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, August 17, 1790
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"The citizens of the United States of America have the right to applaud
themselves for having given to mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal
policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and
immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of
as if it were by the indulgence of one class of citizens that another
enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for happily the
Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to
persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its
protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on
all occasions their effectual support." - Letter to the Hebrew
Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, September 9, 1790
"I lay it down as a maxim, that if the number of the pupils is too great
for the tutors, justice cannot be done, be the abilities of the latter
what they will. What the due proportion, beyond which it ought not to
go, is in some measure matter of opinion, but an extreme must be obvious
to all." - Letter to Tobias Lear, November 7, 1790
"A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the
habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct
here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly
important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."
- Letter to Steptoe Washington, December 5, 1790
"It may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first
essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally
indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It
is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned
but virtuous." - Letter to George Steptoe Washington, December 5, 1790
"Humanity and good policy must make it the wish of every good citizen of the
United States, that husbandry, and consequently civilization, should be
introduced among the Indians. So strongly am I impressed with the beneficial
effects, which our country would receive from such a thing, that I shall
always take a singular pleasure in promoting, as far as may be in my power,
every measure which may tend to ensure it." - Letter to David Humphreys,
July 20, 1791
"The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their
indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and
its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible." - Letter to the
Marquis de Lafayette, July 28, 1791
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"We must, however, place a confidence in that Providence who rules great
events, trusting that out of confusion he will produce order, and,
notwithstanding the dark clouds, which may threaten at present, that right
will ultimately be established." - Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette,
July 28, 1791
"I believe it is among nations as with individuals, that the party taking
advantage of the distresses of another will lose infinitely more in the
opinion of mankind, and in subsequent events, than he will gain by the
stroke of the moment." - Letter to Gouverneur Morris, July 28, 1791
"From long experience I have laid it down as an unerring maxim that to
exact rents with punctuality is not only the right of the Landlord, but
that it is also for the benefit of the Tenant, that it should be so;
unless by uncontroulable events, and providential strokes the latter is
rendered unable to pay them; in such cases he should not only meet with
indulgence, but, in some instances with a remittal of the rent. But, in
the ordinary course of these transactions, the rents ought to be collect
with the most rigid exactness." - Letter to Robert Lewis, October 15,
1791
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." - Letter to his
Niece, Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
"To be under but little or no control may be pleasing to a mind that
does not reflect, but this pleasure cannot be of long duration." - Letter
to Harriot Washington, October 30, 1791
"I mind conscious of its own rectitude fears not what is said of it, but
will bid defiance to and despise shafts that are not barbed with accusations
against honor or integrity." - Letter to Gouverneur Morris, January 28,
1792
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"I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a
Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States;
and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency,
which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed
to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them."
- Letter to John Armstrong, March 11, 1792
"However necessary it may be to keep a watchful eye over public servants,
and public measures, yet there ought to be limits to it; for suspicions
unfounded, and jealousies too lively, are irritating to honest feeling;
and oftentimes are productive of more evil than good." - Letter to
James Madison, May 20, 1792
"Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain
point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be
regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one
hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which
led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret
borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous
patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same
upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more
charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another."
- Letter to Alexander Hamilton, August 26, 1792
"If the government and the officers of it are to be the constant
theme for newspaper abuse, and this too without condescending to
investigate the motives or the facts, it will be impossible, I
conceive, for any man living to manage the helm or to keep the
machine together." - Letter to Edmund Randolph, August 26, 1792
"Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which
are caused by difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the
most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. I
was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked
the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every
denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes
carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society." - Letter
to Edward Newenham, October 20, 1792
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