Posted by
The Interface on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 10:23:02 PM
...for our country when you see some of the character being displayed by our next generation of those not expecting entitlements to which they are not entitled:
"[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."
Reference: George Washington, 1790, letter to Steptoe Washington, Maxims of George Washington, Schroeder, ed. (143)