George Washington Quotes
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I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers.
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
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There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
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It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed.
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Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
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Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.
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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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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.
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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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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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An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.
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Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.
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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
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The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
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The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue.
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Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.
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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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Leave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.
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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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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country.
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I die hard but am not afraid to go.
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.