George Washington actually said...

"In modern wars, the longest purse must chiefly determine the event."

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."

"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."

"Nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicab..."