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George Washington Quotes

George Washington Maxims

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

George Washington Miscellaneous Quotes

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and to humbly implore His protection and favor.”

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

George Washington Political Quotes

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.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.