To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
GEORGE WASHINGTONTo persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
GEORGE WASHINGTONCitizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
GEORGE WASHINGTONHarmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
GEORGE WASHINGTONReason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
GEORGE WASHINGTONBe courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWhere are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
GEORGE WASHINGTONTrue friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
GEORGE WASHINGTONNo punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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 WASHINGTONArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDiscipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
GEORGE WASHINGTONInterwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThere is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
GEORGE WASHINGTON