Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 340 |
| AUTHOR: | George Washington (1732–99) |
| QUOTATION: | It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Washington was the presiding officer. |
| SUBJECTS: | Constitution of the United States |