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The magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my Country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the
wisest and most experienced of her citizens, a distrustful scrutiny into his qualification, could not but overwhelm with
dispondence, one, who, inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpractised in the duties of civil administration,
ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficencies.
– George Washington, First Inaugural Address, New York, April 30, 1789; Fitzpatrick 30:291

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As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible: avoiding occasions of expence by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expence, but by vigorous exertions in time of Peace to discharge the Debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen which we ourselves ought to bear.
George Washington