Best Quotes by George Washington (Top 10)
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington
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However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
George Washington
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.
George Washington
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There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
George Washington
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
George Washington
More George Washington Quotes
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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George Washington
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington
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I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.
George Washington
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington
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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.
George Washington
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
George Washington
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington
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As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
George Washington
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George Washington
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Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
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To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny
George Washington
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington
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Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
George Washington
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The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington
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I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment
George Washington
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
George Washington
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A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
George Washington
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Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand.
George Washington
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force.
George Washington
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
George Washington
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Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.
George Washington
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In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
George Washington
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I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington
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It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
George Washington
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It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington
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I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.
George Washington
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
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In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.
George Washington
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When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
George Washington