George Washington Quotes - Page 9

• True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Family, True Friend

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239

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• Being a politician makes your hair turn white.

  George Washington

  Hair, White, Politician

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• Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that
  Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens
  to cultivate a spirit of subordination and
  obedience to government; to entertain a
  brotherly affection and love for one another and
  for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.

  George Washington

  Prayer, Heart, Government

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• Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

  George Washington

  Wise, Wisdom, Inspiration

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• No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the Nation than to establish a systematic and effectual arrangement for the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt.

  George Washington

  Eye, Wish, Redemption

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.

  George Washington

  Real, Heart, Government

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.8

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• Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

  George Washington

  Law, Made, Has Beens

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.249

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• Always speak the truth.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Speak, Speak The Truth

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• The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

  George Washington

  Party, Ideas, Revolution

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• Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

  George Washington

  Giving, Constitution, Sanctions

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• I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

  George Washington

  Book, Bases, Built

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.362

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• All I am I owe to my mother.

  George Washington

  Mother

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

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• In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.

  George Washington

  Running, Strong, Party

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.11

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• 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.

  George Washington

  Happiness, Government, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.20

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• Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

  George Washington

  Giving, Brilliant, Speak

  "The Writings of George Washington".

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• Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

  George Washington

  Peace, Government, Wish

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.99

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• In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.

  George Washington

  Men, Thinking, Voice

  George Washington (1839). “Life”, p.303

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• Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

  George Washington

  Men, Luxury, Too Late

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1782). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.486

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• 99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

  George Washington

  Excuse, Percent

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• It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

  George Washington

  Arriving, Impossible, Reason

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.342

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• Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

  George Washington

  Enemy, May, Glad

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• Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.

  George Washington

  Country, Real, War

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• Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Government, Mankind

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.141

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

  George Washington

  Lying, Cutting, Tree

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• It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.

  George Washington

  Doubt, Principles, United States

  In a letter to George Washington Snyder, October 24, 1798.

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