Top 450 George Washington Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.”

— George Washington

102. “Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.”

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

104. “Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.”

— George Washington

105. “Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.”

— George Washington

106. “Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.”

— George Washington

107. “The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.”

— George Washington

108. “My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.”

— George Washington

109. “A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.”

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

112. “To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.”

— George Washington

113. “My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.”

— George Washington

114. “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”

— George Washington

115. “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.”

— George Washington

116. “I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one’s life, the foundation of happiness or misery.”

— George Washington

117. “One’s god dictates the kind of law one implements and also controls the application and development of that law over time. Given enough time, all non-Christian systems of law self-destruct in a fit of tyranny.”

— George Washington

118. “It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.”

— George Washington

119. “Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.”

— George Washington

120. “It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.”

— George Washington

121. “I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.”

— George Washington

122. “The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.”

— George Washington

123. “The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.”

— George Washington

124. “Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and earth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from heaven in pity and compassion upon me thy servant, who humbly prostrate myself before thee.”

— George Washington

125. “A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.”

— George Washington

126. “Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.”

— George Washington

127. “The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.”

— George Washington

128. “All I am, I owe to my mother.”

— George Washington

129. “We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.”

— George Washington

130. “May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.”

— George Washington

131. “My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.”

— George Washington

132. “The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.”

— George Washington

133. “To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.”

— George Washington

134. “Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!”

— George Washington

135. “I have only been an instrument in the hands of Providence.”

— George Washington

136. “The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.”

— George Washington

137. “Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.”

— George Washington

138. “Have the strength to be an honest person.”

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

140. “Peace with all the world is my sincerest wish.”

— George Washington

141. “The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.”

— George Washington

142. “A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.”

— George Washington

143. “No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.”

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

145. “No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.”

— George Washington

146. “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.”

— George Washington

147. “The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.”

— George Washington

148. “The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion.”

— George Washington

149. “The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God’s will.”

— George Washington

150. “Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.”

— George Washington