Abigail Adams

"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

"I desire you would Remember the Ladies."

"Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could."

John Adams

"Go on and improve in
everything worthy."

George Washington

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."

"Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind—than on the externals in the world."

Martha Washington

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."

James Madison

"The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted."

Dolley Madison

"I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue."

Thomas Jefferson

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Benjamin Franklin

"There never was a good War,
or a bad Peace."