George Washington quotes page 1

1732-1799, one of the Founding Fathers and 1st President of the United States

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with a few. And let those few be well tried before you give
them your confidence.
George Washington

A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient
arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to
abuse them, which would include their own government.
George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington

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

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the
weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's
teeth.
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.
George Washington

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
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.
George Washington

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first
wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George Washington

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
George Washington

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George Washington

Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.
George Washington

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to
nation.
George Washington

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their
advantages may achieve almost anything.
George Washington

To err is natural; to rectify error is glory.
George Washington

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.
George Washington

In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed
that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from
others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this
maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted
into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.
George Washington

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black
and detestable one, ingratitude.
George Washington

99 percent of failures come from people who make excuses.
George Washington

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