"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." —John Adams (1808)
"Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives." —John Adams (1808)
"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve." —Benjamin Franklin (1771)
"All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity." —George Washington (179
"The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." —James Madison (1788)
"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind." —Thomas Jefferson (179