George Washington Quotations

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

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

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

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

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter!

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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

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

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

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

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

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

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

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.

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.

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.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

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

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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

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

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.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

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

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

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

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

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

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

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 his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.

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

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

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

Unless there's a judge somewhere who is just dying for a case like this, I think it will be put to an end on Friday.

We'll be asking to set aside the Court of Appeals decision.

When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us through the Revolution, in preparing us for the reception of a general government, and in conciliating the good will of the People of America towards one

Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters, let it be somewhat grave.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair

(Liberty) is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind

Obviously, we need to see the details of all the patients and the adverse events to be able to interpret the importance of these toxicities, ... Given this advisory, I think we'll be less likely to use this compound, considering there are other alternatives available.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another

Perfection falls not to the share of mortals

I don't think it's a match-up problem. We have two of the best players around. We just didn't execute well enough offensively.

We, the people of the State of Florida, being grateful to Almighty God...

When, in the decline of Life, I gratify the fond wish of my heart in retiring from public labors, and find the language of approbation and fervent prayers for future happiness following that event, my heart expands with gratitude and my feelings beco

There is an option still left to the United States of America, that it is in their choice and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous or contemptible and miserable as a Nation

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness

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

It gave us a chance to reassess what our country stands for, what our freedoms mean and what our responsibility is,

It is not the custom with me to keep money to look at

It is only after time has been given for a cool and deliberate reflection that the real voice of the people can be known

It is my most ardent desire, not only to soften the inevitable calamities of war, but even to introduce on every occasion as great a share of tenderness and humanity, as can possibly be exercised in a state of hostility

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly in misspending time.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle

Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions...

That a national university in this country is a thing to be desired, has always been my decided opinion

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of his execution; so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode f

The ambassador added that the US was not against the Taliban, per se (and) was not out to destroy the Taliban,

My brave fellows, ... you have done all I asked you to do and more than could be reasonably expected. But this country is at stake, your wives, your homes and everything you hold dear. You have borne yourself up with fatigues and hardships, but we know not how to spare you. If you consent to stay one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty and this country which you probably could never do under any other circumstances.

Why would the president bring this up? It's a difficult issue, may cause us to have to make a tough vote.

Without a humble imitation of the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation.

We had high expectations. We were just inconsistent.

Thus supported by a firm trust in the Great Arbiter of the Universe, aided by the collected wisdom of the Union, and imploring the divine benediction on our joint exertions in the service of our country, I readily engage with you in the arduous but p

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

We'd kid him sometimes that he was right there at the founding.

When a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves, and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes

The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained

Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world

This spirited new musical is American history...but with a 'Forrest Gump'-type twist, as Liberty Smith, an everyman hero and the 'forgotten' founding father, crosses paths with historical giants and influences great events in funny and unexpected ways.

with black feathery trim -- because the founding father was ''so stiff.

When you have somebody that big, you have to be able to shoot from the outside.