Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDecision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
GEORGE WASHINGTONSystem to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
GEORGE WASHINGTONArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
GEORGE WASHINGTONPaper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
GEORGE WASHINGTONPerseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
GEORGE WASHINGTONTo be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe 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 WASHINGTONIt is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMuch was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
GEORGE WASHINGTONA primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThose who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIndividuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIt is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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 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 WASHINGTON