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George Washington Quotes

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If to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God  (George Washington Quotes) If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter  (George Washington Quotes) 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  (George Washington Quotes) There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness  (George Washington Quotes) My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her  (George Washington Quotes) Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome  (George Washington Quotes) Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well tried before you give them your confidence  (George Washington Quotes) The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in  (George Washington Quotes) Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world  (George Washington Quotes) I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy  (George Washington Quotes) The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion  (George Washington Quotes) 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 Quotes) The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions  (George Washington Quotes) It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders  (George Washington Quotes) Overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty  (George Washington Quotes) Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern  (George Washington Quotes) A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred  (George Washington Quotes) Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty  (George Washington Quotes) To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country  (George Washington Quotes) One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts  (George Washington Quotes) Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment  (George Washington Quotes) Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power  (George Washington Quotes) No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin  (George Washington Quotes) I can truly say I had rather be a Mount Vernon than to be attended at the Seat of Government by the officers of State and the representatives of every power in Europe  (George Washington Quotes) T]he gradual extension of our settlements will as certainly cause the savage, as the wolf, to retire; both being beasts of prey, though they differ in shape  (George Washington Quotes) Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for  (George Washington Quotes) The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations  (George Washington Quotes) The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions  (George Washington Quotes) Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds  (George Washington Quotes) The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such  (George Washington Quotes)
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