George Washington Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

  George Washington

  Government, Political, Suffering

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.74, Rowman & Littlefield

• 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.

  George Washington

  Book, 4th Of July, Preparation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

  George Washington

  Heart, Hands, Giving

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.374

• One of George Washington's main concerns was to make sure that his soldiers had adequate supplies of meat: A part of the army has been a week without any kind of flesh, and the rest three or four days. Naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their suffering to a general mutiny and dispersion.

  George Washington

  Kindness, Army, Soldier

• The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

  George Washington

  Effort, Presidential, Independence

  "The Patriot's Monitor: Or, Speeches and Addresses of the Late George Washington".

• Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

  George Washington

  Struggle, Men, Suffering

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.91

• The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

  George Washington

  Army, Play, Suffering

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