George Washington Quotes

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever pla...

...do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, a...

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial rela...

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviab...

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered b...

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

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

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supp...

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

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone th...

We must never despair our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better...

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature...

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

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason...

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppre...

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

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

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be...

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...

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

Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to...

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my succe...

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose ...

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed tha...

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

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

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

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The r...

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

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

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culpri...

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity bef...

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...

I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

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

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

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

The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree ...

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literatu...

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around ...

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an ...

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not t...

To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institutio...

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the ...

It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union...

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever pla...

Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowled...

Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, un...

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent...

Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

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

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept t...

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

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

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...

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

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

There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymo...

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

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of peopl...

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputab...

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

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutio...

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

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the be...

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

Heaven itself has ordained the right.

[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone th...

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are...

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, w...

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

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute order...

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

It [gaming] is the child of avarice the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief.

Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force.

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...