Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
More George Washington Quotes
-
-
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
Every 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 WASHINGTON -
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
GEORGE WASHINGTON -
There 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 WASHINGTON -
Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
GEORGE WASHINGTON