3 December 2020 George Washington 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.
3 December 2020 George Washington Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
3 December 2020 George Washington The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
3 December 2020 George Washington 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.
3 December 2020 George Washington The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
3 December 2020 George Washington It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
3 December 2020 George Washington 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.
3 December 2020 George Washington Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
3 December 2020 George Washington I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
3 December 2020 George Washington 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.
3 December 2020 George Washington Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
3 December 2020 George Washington My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
3 December 2020 George Washington It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
3 December 2020 George Washington To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
3 December 2020 George Washington War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
3 December 2020 George Washington Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
3 December 2020 George Washington If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
3 December 2020 George Washington 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.
3 December 2020 George Washington 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.
3 December 2020 George Washington Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
3 December 2020 George Washington Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
3 December 2020 George Washington Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
3 December 2020 George Washington If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
3 December 2020 George Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
3 December 2020 George Washington The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
3 December 2020 George Washington We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
