George Washington Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

  George Washington

  Errors, Guilty, Crime

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “(v. 3-8) Comprising correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American Revolution”, p.248

• Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

  George Washington

  Men, Mind, Faces

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.246

• Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.

  George Washington

  Learning, Criminals, Crime

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.282, Executive Intelligence Review

• Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

  George Washington

  Punishment, Soldier, Guilt

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president”, p.90

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