George Washington
sitemanagerGovernment is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and…
George Washington
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George Washington
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection,…
George Washington
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.
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…
George Washington
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington
War - an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. Iit is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three…
George Washington
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
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
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
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…
George Washington
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.