Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
- George Washington Quote
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 Quote
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.
- George Washington Quote
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- George Washington Quote
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 Quote
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington Quote
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
- George Washington Quote
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington Quote
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
- George Washington Quote
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
- George Washington Quote
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 Quote
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
- George Washington Quote
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 Quote
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
- George Washington Quote
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- George Washington Quote
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington Quote
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- George Washington Quote
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington Quote
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
- George Washington Quote
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
- George Washington Quote
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 Quote
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- George Washington Quote
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
- George Washington Quote
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
- George Washington Quote
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
- George Washington Quote
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
- George Washington Quote
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
- George Washington Quote
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 Quote
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
- George Washington Quote
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
- George Washington Quote
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
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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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The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
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The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
- George Washington Quote
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
- George Washington Quote
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
- George Washington Quote
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
- George Washington Quote
To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
- George Washington Quote
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 Quote
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
- George Washington Quote
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
- George Washington Quote
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.
- George Washington Quote
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
- George Washington Quote
