George Washington Quotes
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.
I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.
Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.
The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.
Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.
The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.
It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.
The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
Successfully to accomplish any task it is necessary not only that you should give it the best there is in you, but that you should obtain for it the best there is in those under your guidance.
Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.
Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.
A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.
I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.