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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For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
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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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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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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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No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.
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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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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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It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.
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Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
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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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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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To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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When there is no vision, there is no hope.
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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.