George Washington actually said...

"The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions."

"I cannot conceive a rank more honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people—the purest source and original fountain of all power."

"There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."

"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of Government are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hand..."