(5 quotes found)
“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.”
Mark Twain
“Shift that fat ass, Harry. But slowly, or you'll swamp the damned boat.”
George Washington
“His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble.”
Thomas Jefferson
“My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.”
“George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.”
