George Washington said...

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

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

Satisfied, therefore, that you have sincerely wished and endeavored to avert war, and exhausted to the last drop the cup...

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.