Javier Castellon Villanueva’s Reviews > George Washington: Man and Monument > Status Update

Just, wow. Last chapter is by far the best. Wish I had enough space to write all of these quotes, but it would do it injustice. One must read these passages in their entirety to feel the true touch of their power.

154, 155, 156

just pure beauty.

reread them every few months.

“It isn’t pleasant or convenient to have strong passions. I have the uncomfortable feeling that I am carrying a volcano about with me.”

- Woodrow Wilson

few.

“Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please”

Live a life full of action, so when you die you know you have your all.

Our founding fathers knew that political parties would be the death of our democracy. It is insane they foretold this with such omnipresent wisdom.

“Washington came at length to share the Federalist view that their opponents were not the other party, but simply “party,” or “faction”; not the “opposition” who might one day justly inherit the reins of government,”

“(Benjamin) Franklin spoke against a salary for the President, on the grounds that (as British politics dreadfully revealed) a “Post of Honour” that was also a “Place of Profit” was calculated to bring out the worst excesses of ambition and avarice”

GAHDAMN BEN WAS SPITTIN.

LOOK AT OUR PRESIDENT NOW, LOOK AT CONGRESS, LOOK AT THE SUPREME COURT.

ALL BOUGHT OUT THROUGH GIFTS AND LOBBYING AND CORRUPTION.

“The Constitution was workable because the majority of Americans wished it to work. Without that vital element of habitual skill and harmony, all of Washington’s laborers and exhortations would have been in vain.”

Unfortunately feel as though Washington’s labors and exhortations (whatever that word means) have ended up being in vain due to the narcissistic maniac the American people elected for president.

Don’t strive to be perfect, strive to be indispensable.

“The ‘available’ man proved to be, despite all his minor defects, the indispensable man.”