Words matter. These are the best George Washington Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
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.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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.
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
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.
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.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
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.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
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.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
