George Washington Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

  George Washington

  Perfection, World, Lasts

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1840). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.563

• 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.

  George Washington

  Principles, Slavery, Unions

  "Retrospections of America, 1797 - 1811". Book by John Bernard, p. 91, 1887.

• There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

  George Washington

  Independent, Men, Giving

  George Washington (1795). “Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress,: Written, During the War Between the United Colonies and Great Britain, by His Excellency, George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, Now President of the United States”, p.269

• Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.

  George Washington

  Strong, Teaching, Men

• The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.

  George Washington

  Justice, Honor, Safe

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield

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