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George Washington (22 February 1732 – 14 December 1799) was the successful Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783, and later became the first President of the United States of America, an office to which he was elected, unanimously, twice and remained in from 1789 to 1797. He is generally regarded as the "Father of his country".
25 Famous George Washington Quotes:
George Washington Quotes
1. If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
― George Washington
2. 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
3. Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
― George Washington
4. 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.
― George Washington
5. I die hard but am not afraid to go.
― George Washington
6. There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
― George Washington
7. A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
― George Washington
8. I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
― George Washington
9. No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
― George Washington
10. It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
― George Washington
11. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
― George Washington
12. To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
― George Washington
13. 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
14. Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
― George Washington
15. Of all the dispositions and habits which least to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indespensible supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of Patriotism who should labor to subvert these great Pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere Politician, equally with the pious man ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
― George Washington
16. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
― George Washington
17. 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.
― George Washington
18. Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
― George Washington
19. 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.
― George Washington
20. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
― George Washington
21. May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.
― George Washington
22. Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
― George Washington
23. 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.
― George Washington
24. Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
― George Washington
25. Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough
― George Washington
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