>“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.”
~ George Washington, letter to Major General John Sullivan, December 15, 1779; “The Writings of George Washington,” [1890] by Worthington Chauncey Ford, Vol. 8, p. 139
