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George Washington Quotes

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

– George Washington

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

– George Washington

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

– George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

– George Washington

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

– George Washington

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

– George Washington

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

– George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

– George Washington

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

– George Washington

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

– George Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

– George Washington

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

– George Washington

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

– George Washington

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

– George Washington

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

– George Washington

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

– George Washington

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

– George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

– George Washington

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

– George Washington

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

– George Washington

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

– George Washington

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

– George Washington

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

– George Washington

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

– George Washington

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

– George Washington

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

– George Washington

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

– George Washington

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

– George Washington

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

– George Washington

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

– George Washington

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