George Washington Quotes
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A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.
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We beseech God to pardon our national and other transgressions.
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The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.
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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.
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My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.'
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Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.
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The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.
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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.
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It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.
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Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.
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We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals.
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The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
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Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
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Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.
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May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.
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Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war.
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I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.
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May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence
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Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man