George Washington Quotes

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.

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• All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World.

  

  George Washington
  • World
  • America
  • Organization

• Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

  

  George Washington
  • Giving
  • Advice

• Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

  

  George Washington
  • War
  • Peace
  • Justice

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

  

  George Washington
  • Liberty
  • Tyranny
  • Confusion

• 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
  • Experience
  • Past
  • Purpose

• It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

  

  George Washington
  • Leadership
  • Individual
  • Honesty

• Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

  

  George Washington
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Duty

• Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

  

  George Washington
  • Business
  • Discourse
  • Comprehensive

• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  

  George Washington
  • War
  • Peace

• Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is unjust. Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth, and pursue it steadily. Nothing but harmony, honesty, industry and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation.

  

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  • Men
  • Truth
  • Evil

• 99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Excuses
  • Failures

• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.

  

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  • Confidence
  • Friendship
  • Withstand

• To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

  

  George Washington
  • Experience
  • Impossible
  • Blunders

• 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
  • Party
  • Circumstances
  • Temper

• Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Bird
  • Clothes

• A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.

  

  George Washington
  • Lions
  • Superiors
  • Packs

• Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

  

  George Washington
  • Judgment
  • Argument
  • Strive

• We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

  

  George Washington
  • Wishes
  • Means

• To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

  

  George Washington
  • Answers
  • Duty
  • Silent

• But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Republican
  • Confusion

• Always speak the truth.

  

  George Washington
  • inspirational
  • Speak

• To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

  

  George Washington
  • Evil
  • Speak
  • Gossip

• It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

  

  George Washington
  • Excuse
  • Offer

• 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
  • People
  • Education
  • Mean