Quote of the day...

Elizabeth Powel

"Your resignation would elate the enemies of good government and cause lasting regret to the friends of humanity. The mistaken and prejudiced part of mankind, that see through the mediums of bad minds, would ascribe your conduct to unworthy motives. They would say that you were actuated by principles of self-love alone - that you saw the post was not tenable with any prospect of adding to your fame. The Antifederalist would use it as an argument for dissolving the Union, and would urge that you, from experience, had found the present system a bad one, and had, artfully, withdrawn from it that you might not be crushed under its ruins - that, in this, you had acted a politic part."

Elizabeth Powel to George Washington in a letter urging him to run for a 2nd term.