George Washington actually said...

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

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."

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

"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..."