Practical Quotations » George Washington

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:30:42 +0000

Honesty in States [archaic, governments], as well as in individuals, will ever be found the soundest policy.

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:28:38 +0000

Nations are not influenced, as individuals may be, by disinterested friendships; but, when it is their interest to live in amity, we have little reason to apprehend any rupture.

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:26:04 +0000

There is nothing so likely to produce peace, as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

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George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:23:52 +0000

Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances, for extraordinary emergencies.

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George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:22:01 +0000

I hope, some day, we shall become a Storehouse and Granary for the World.

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George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:20:37 +0000

Good measures should always be executed, as soon as they are conceived, and circumstances will admit.

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:18:59 +0000

The Constitution is the guide which I never can abandon.

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George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:17:43 +0000

A spirit of accommodation was the basis of the present Constitution.

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George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:16:06 +0000

I am under more apprehensions on account of our own dissensions, than of the efforts of the enemy.

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George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:12:56 +0000

I trust the goodness of the cause, and the exertions of the people, and Divine protection, will give us that honorable peace for which we are contending.

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:11:08 +0000

A spirit of equal liberty appears fast to be gaining ground every where; which must afford satisfaction to every friend of mankind.

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George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:09:18 +0000

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

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:08:02 +0000

That the Government [which the US Founder's created], though not actually perfect, is one of the best in the world, I have little doubt.

George Washington

George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:05:51 +0000

Let us have a Government, by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured.

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George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:02:39 +0000

The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all Government.

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George Washington — Mon, 03 May 2010 20:41:18 +0000

The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested on our behalf.

George Washington

George Washington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:30:08 +0000

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 it [slavery].

George Washington

George Washington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:22:55 +0000

The last thing I shall mention, is first of importance and that is, to avoid gaming.

George Washington

George Washington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:20:03 +0000

To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.

George Washington

George Washington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:18:50 +0000

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion.