• The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.

    George Washington: The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.
    "The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private".