black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.

George Washington

Related Topics

Blind Country Duty Gentlemen Gray Grow Permit Service Spectacle

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Growth Inspirational Liberty Life Plant Rapid Root
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Appearance Conceal Crises Greatness Live Moment Observed Occur Trivial Turn
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Effective Peace Prepare War
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Argument Judgement Modest Strive Submission Superior
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Exclusion Expectation Experience Moral Principles Reason Religion
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Depend Happiness Mind Person World
Man is the religious animal.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Animal Man One Liner Religion
The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Citizen Decision Requirement Understand
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Affliction Distress Feeling Heart One Liner
Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Good Machine Necessary Politics Rescue Storm Time Wisdom
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Dreans Earth Man Plague
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Dreams Justice Liberty Nation
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Affection Attachment Choice Citizen Concerntrate Country
Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Advantage Capable Goodness Interest Men Sacrifice
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Emperor Farm Inspirational One Liner World
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Art Citizen Duty Encourage Goodness Literature Owe Responsiblity

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0