Practical Quotations » Will

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 21:20:37 +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 21:12:56 +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 21:05:51 +0000

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

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:43:56 +0000

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:34:01 +0000

United wishes and goodwill cannot overcome brute facts.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:04:35 +0000

Some people will deny anything, but there are some denials that do not alter the facts.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:42:23 +0000

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed…. That is what makes life so interesting.

John Jay

John Jay — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:43:59 +0000

[T]he evidence of the truth of Christianity requires only to be carefully examined to produce conviction in candid minds… they who undertake that task will derive advantages.

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:58:13 +0000

This is all the inheritance I can give to my dear family. The religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:54:04 +0000

From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:50:09 +0000

Encourage all your virtuous dispositions, and exercise them whenever an opportunity arises, being assured that they will gain strength by exercise, as a limb of the body does, and that exercise will make them habitual.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:28:16 +0000

[S]hould things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:33:10 +0000

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:10:26 +0000

We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:26:56 +0000

History will also afford the frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion….and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:29:00 +0000

While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:26:54 +0000

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:24:39 +0000

[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:54:10 +0000

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark.