George Washington Quotes

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

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.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

One thing and only one thing a Masonic Lodge can give its members which they can get nowhere else in the world. That one thing is Masonry.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

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

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World.

My purpose alone must be God's purpose.

There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.

Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

You can't teach people anything. You can only draw out.

Discipline is the soul of an army.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

LIBERTY, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

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

The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

There is no short cut to acheivement.

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

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

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.