Founders' Quote Database

Noah Webster

Letters to a Young Gentleman Commencing His Education — 1789
Category: Character
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character....

George Washington

letter to Steptoe Washington — 1790
Category: Character
[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.

Samuel Adams

essay in The Public Advertiser — 1749
Category: Character
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Samuel Adams

letter to James Warren — 1775
Category: Character
The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.

Thomas Jefferson

Notes on Virginia Query 19 — 1781
Category: Character
It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

John Witherspoon

The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men — 1776
Category: Character
Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.

George Washington

letter to the Residents of Boston — 1789
Category: Character
Your love of liberty - your respect for the laws - your habits of industry - and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.

George Washington

draft of first Inaugural Address — 1789
Category: Character
No compact among men...can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.

George Washington

letter to John Armstrong — 1788
Category: Character
[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

Samuel Adams

letter to James Warren — 1775
Category: Character
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

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