George Washington Quotes
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Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.
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An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
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Being a politician makes your hair turn white.
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Facts may speak for themselves.
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Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance.
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The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
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The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.
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As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.
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Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?
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Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
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Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.
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I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.
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Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.
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If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
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There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true, and, in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.
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Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.
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It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.
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I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
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Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.
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Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.
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Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.
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Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.