Quotes
Quotes - Washington
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. - George Washington,
A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
Government is not reason, it is not eloquenceâit is force.
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.
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.
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
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.
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world--so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?--Why by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice?
Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere.
I die hard but am not afraid to go.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother.
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
