Quotes from George Washington

Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.

For if you care for your freedoms, Stay Woke!

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

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.

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

My brave fellows, you have done all what I asked you to, and more than could be reasonably expected.

My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so.

No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.

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

Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title

Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

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 government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

These hoes be bitching, don't mess with them just shoot them.

To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.