George Washington Quotes
George Washington Quotes
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
4464 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.
3025 Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
1079 [death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
2280 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?
4881 Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
2100 The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
1129 There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
2150 Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
3291 One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
4720 We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
4345 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.
3012 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.
2877 The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
3454 If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
1666 Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)
2200 no punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin
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