I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
GEORGE WASHINGTONNo punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThose who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
GEORGE WASHINGTONOf all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWorry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDecision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
GEORGE WASHINGTONEvery man thinks God is on his side.
GEORGE WASHINGTONEvery day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
GEORGE WASHINGTONLabor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
GEORGE WASHINGTONGuard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
GEORGE WASHINGTONOne of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
GEORGE WASHINGTONReligious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
GEORGE WASHINGTONHappiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThere is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
GEORGE WASHINGTONFew men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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