Top 450 George Washington Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

103. “True friendship is a plant of slow growth.”

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

105. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

110. “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

111. “When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.”

— George Washington

112. “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

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

— George Washington

114. “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

115. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

118. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

121. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

128. “All I am, I owe to my mother.”

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

132. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

135. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

138. “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

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

— George Washington

140. “Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.”

— George Washington

141. “To stand well in the estimation of one’s country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.”

— George Washington

142. “One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.”

— George Washington

143. “The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.”

— George Washington

144. “How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”

— George Washington

145. “Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.”

— George Washington

146. “One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”

— George Washington

147. “It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious.”

— George Washington

148. “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

149. “To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.”

— George Washington

150. “I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.”

— George Washington