Quotes from George Washington

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country.

Labor to keep alive in your breaks that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man.

It is best to be silent, for there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

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.

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.

In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

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

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.

Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

Always speak the truth.

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