Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMake sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWe must consult our means rather than our wishes.
GEORGE WASHINGTONGentlemen, 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 WASHINGTONIt is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
GEORGE WASHINGTONExperience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
GEORGE WASHINGTONReal men despise battle, but will never run from it.
GEORGE WASHINGTONHeard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
GEORGE WASHINGTONA slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
GEORGE WASHINGTONPromote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWe should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
GEORGE WASHINGTONBe courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
GEORGE WASHINGTON