George Washington Quotes
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351. “Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?”

— George Washington

352. “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

353. “The most dangerous of all false doctrines is the one seasoned with a little truth. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”

— George Washington

354. “Our country’s honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.”

— George Washington

355. “Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme.”

— George Washington

356. “Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.”

— George Washington

357. “Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.”

— George Washington

358. “In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.”

— George Washington

359. “Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.”

— George Washington

360. “The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.”

— George Washington

361. “An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person’s who is at the head of troops which are regardless of order and discipline.”

— George Washington

362. “It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.”

— George Washington

363. “In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world.”

— George Washington

364. “In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.”

— George Washington

365. “There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.”

— George Washington

366. “Letters of friendship require no study.”

— George Washington

367. “For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.”

— George Washington

368. “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 must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”

— George Washington

369. “To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.”

— George Washington

370. “It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.”

— George Washington

371. “I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”

— George Washington

372. “To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression.”

— George Washington

373. “90. Being Set at meat Scratch not, neither Spit, Cough, or blow your Nose except there’s a Necessity for it.”

— George Washington

374. “To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”

— George Washington

375. “It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest – the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.”

— George Washington

376. “Pierce was the first President to “affirm” rather than “swear” his oath. He was also the first to have memorized his inaugural speech.”

— George Washington

377. “Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.”

— George Washington

378. “A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.”

— George Washington

379. “There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.”

— George Washington

380. “I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves;.”

— George Washington

381. “Merit rarely goes unrewarded.”

— George Washington

382. “The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.”

— George Washington

383. “Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.”

— George Washington

384. “Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.”

— George Washington

385. “We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn.”

— George Washington

386. “It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow.”

— George Washington

387. “A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.”

— George Washington

388. “Facts may speak for themselves.”

— George Washington

389. “Saya harap, saya selalu memiliki cukup keteguhan dan cukup kebajikan untuk memelihara gelar yang saya anggap paling mengagumkan, yaitu watak sebagai orang jujur.”

— George Washington

390. “At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.”

— George Washington

391. “I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.”

— George Washington

392. “A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.”

— George Washington

393. “In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.”

— George Washington

394. “To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.”

— George Washington

395. “The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.”

— George Washington

396. “The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.”

— George Washington

397. “I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.”

— George Washington

398. “System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.”

— George Washington

399. “Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.”

— George Washington

400. “Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.”

— George Washington