George Washington Quotes
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101. “It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.”

— George Washington

102. “Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.”

— George Washington

103. “The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.”

— George Washington

104. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

109. “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

110. “The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”

— George Washington

111. “It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.”

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

113. “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

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

— George Washington

115. “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

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

— George Washington

117. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

120. “It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.”

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

122. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

125. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

129. “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

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

— George Washington

131. “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

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

— George Washington

133. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

136. “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

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

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

139. “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

140. “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

141. “Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.”

— George Washington

142. “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

143. “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

144. “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

145. “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

146. “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

147. “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

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

— George Washington

149. “All I am, I owe to my mother.”

— George Washington

150. “Your love of liberty – your respect for the laws – your habits of industry – and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.”

— George Washington