| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Washington |
| | | Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. | 1 |
| Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. | 2 |
| Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire—conscience. | 3 |
| Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigour. It is, therefore, my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished by it. | 4 |
| Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. | 5 |
| Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. | 6 |
| Religion is as necessary to reason as reason to religion. | 7 |
| To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. | 8 |
| To persevere in one’s duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny. | 9 |
| True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. | 10 | | |
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