Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, September, 1772.
There never was a good war or a bad peace.[361:3]
Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773.
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775.
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
The Whistle. November, 1779.
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.