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George Washington Quote: “There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.”
George Washington Quote: “From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!”
George Washington Quote: “Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.”
George Washington Quote: “Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.”
George Washington Quote: “Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.”
George Washington Quote: “Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.”
George Washington Quote: “Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.”
George Washington Quote: “If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.”
George Washington Quote: “So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.”
George Washington Quote: “Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.”
George Washington Quote: “The nation which indulges towards 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, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.”
George Washington Quote: “Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.”
George Washington Quote: “I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.”
George Washington Quote: “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. – March 15, 1783.”
George Washington Quote: “It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect...”
George Washington Quote: “The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.”
George Washington Quote: “When firearms go, all goes – we need them every hour.”
George Washington Quote: “When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.”
George Washington Quote: “Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.”
George Washington Quote: “The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.”
George Washington Quote: “As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.”
George Washington Quote: “It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.”
George Washington Quote: “Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?”
George Washington Quote: “I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.”
George Washington Quote: “Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.”
George Washington Quote: “Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.”
George Washington Quote: “Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties.”
George Washington Quote: “A bad war is fought with a good mind.”
George Washington Quote: “We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.”
George Washington Quote: “Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.”
George Washington Quote: “It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country’s welfare.”
George Washington Quote: “I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.”
George Washington Quote: “Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.”
George Washington Quote: “Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.”
George Washington Quote: “Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.”
George Washington Quote: “An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.”
George Washington Quote: “It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.”
George Washington Quote: “Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.”
George Washington Quote: “The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.”
George Washington Quote: “While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.”
George Washington Quote: “The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”
George Washington Quote: “May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do – rather too late.”
George Washington Quote: “Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any.”
George Washington Quote: “The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.”
George Washington Quote: “It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”
George Washington Quote: “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.”
George Washington Quote: “I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.”
George Washington Quote: “Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.”
George Washington Quote: “Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.”
George Washington Quote: “The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.”
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