George Washington Quotes
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I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
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A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.
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Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.
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For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
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The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such.
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Have the strength to be an honest person.
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No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.
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Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
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When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
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If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
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When there is no vision, there is no hope.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Death...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.