George Washington famous quotes

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #America #Liberty

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
-- George Washington

#Inspirational #Friendship #4th Of July

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
-- George Washington

#Christian #Character #Soldier

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

#Christian #Gun #Self

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American patriot if they ever attempt to separate religion from politics.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #World #Impossible

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Impossible

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
-- George Washington

#Happiness #Mind #World

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
-- George Washington

#Motivational #4th Of July #Inspiration

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
-- George Washington

#Friendship #Confidence #Inspiration

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
-- George Washington

#War #4th Of July #Patriotism

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
-- George Washington

#Party #Men #People

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.
-- George Washington

#Military #War #People

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
-- George Washington

#Military #War #4th Of July

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

#Military #Night #Succeed

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
-- George Washington

#Memorial Day #Freedom #4th Of July

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
-- George Washington

#Business #Triumph #Blogging

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
-- George Washington

#Freedom #Taken #4th Of July

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
-- George Washington

#Travel #War #4th Of July

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
-- George Washington

#Mothers Day #Beautiful #Appreciation

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
-- George Washington

#Motivational #Teacher #Honesty

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
-- George Washington

#Political #Liberty #Connections

I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.
-- George Washington

#America #Yield #Anarchy

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
-- George Washington

#Father #Lying #Littles

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.
-- George Washington

#Country #Paper #Body

We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.
-- George Washington

#Character #America #People

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
-- George Washington

#Trust #Hope #Truth

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.
-- George Washington

#Inspirational #Strength #Christian

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
-- George Washington

#Freedom #4th Of July #Patriotic

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
-- George Washington

#Truth #Pain #Inspiration

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
-- George Washington

#Education #Wisdom #Religious

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

#Money #Powerful #War

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

#Life #Real #Moments

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

#Happiness #Government #Law

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

#Country #Inspiration #Knowledge

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

#Sleep #Army #Reflection

No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency
-- George Washington

#Christian #Character #Independent

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

#Character #Government #Office

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
-- George Washington

#Country #Patriotic #Pride

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny
-- George Washington

#Not Giving Up #Answers #Persevere

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
-- George Washington

#Country #Patriotic #Government

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.
-- George Washington

#Gun #Government #People

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their [NOT our!] religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
-- George Washington

#Christian #Religious #Spring

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Government #Voice

The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained." Inaugural address 1789
-- George Washington

#Order #Heaven #Addresses

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Heart #Attachment

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Destiny #Hands

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

#Thanksgiving #Bible #God

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.
-- George Washington

#Men #Good Man #Indifferent

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.
-- George Washington

#Peace #Government #Wish

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
-- George Washington

#Fool #Sensible

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
-- George Washington

#Marriage #Interesting #Foundation

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Fire #Government

Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
-- George Washington

#Resources #Providence #All Time

To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.
-- George Washington

#Military #Men #Soldier

It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.
-- George Washington

#Doubt #Principles #United States

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.
-- George Washington

#Causes #Chaos #Natural

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
-- George Washington

#Imagine #Reason #Said

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
-- George Washington

#Inspirational #Leadership #Motivation

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
-- George Washington

#Wisdom #4th Of July #Government

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #America #Europe

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
-- George Washington

#Peace #War #4th Of July

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
-- George Washington

#Brave #Rewards #Merit

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.
-- George Washington

#Force #Naval

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Past #Errors

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
-- George Washington

#Peace #War #4th Of July

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
-- George Washington

#Christian #Religious #4th Of July

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Army #Soldier

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

#4th Of July #Patriotic #Men

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
-- George Washington

#Inspirational #4th Of July #Heart

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Inspiration #Patriotic

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

#4th Of July #Character #Mean

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
-- George Washington

#Military #War #4th Of July

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

#Jesus #Father #Compassion

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
-- George Washington

#Jealousy #4th Of July #Men

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
-- George Washington

#Inspirational #Life #Success

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.
-- George Washington

#Inspiration #Agency #Impossible

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Political #May

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Two #Political

A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils
-- George Washington

#Attachment #Evil #Passionate

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
-- George Washington

#Inspirational #Friendship #Positive

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
-- George Washington

#Attitude #Business #4th Of July

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
-- George Washington

#Country #4th Of July #Views

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
-- George Washington

#Book #4th Of July #Preparation

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
-- George Washington

#4th Of July #Army #Numbers

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.
-- George Washington

#Spiritual #Religious #Would Be

To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.
-- George Washington

#Military #Men #Skills

It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.
-- George Washington

#Real #Reflection #Voice

To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.
-- George Washington

#Race #Design #Principles

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

#Delay #Redemption #Debt

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

#Ideas #Government #People

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
-- George Washington

#Education #Mean #People

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.
-- George Washington

#Taxation #Taxes

It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.
-- George Washington

#Wise #Hands #People

No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.
-- George Washington

#Wall #Character #Ambition

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
-- George Washington

#Love #Country #Voice

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

#Government #People #Lasts

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
-- George Washington

#Debt #Pay #Way

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
-- George Washington

#Country #Best Wishes #Feelings

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.
-- George Washington

#Office #May #Connections

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

#Education #Appreciate #Political