George Washington Quotes
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I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.
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Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
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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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Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my heart by Thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of Thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of Thee and Thy son, Jesus Christ.
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The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.
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A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.
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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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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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Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.
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Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
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There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.
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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
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An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person's who is at the head of troops which are regardless of order and discipline.
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Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another.
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It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
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Went to church and fasted all day.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.
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Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.
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Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.
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There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.
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I have never been a communicant.
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My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind.
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There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.