Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
GEORGE WASHINGTONReligious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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 WASHINGTONExperience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
GEORGE WASHINGTONArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
GEORGE WASHINGTONGovernment is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
GEORGE WASHINGTONLiberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
GEORGE WASHINGTONOf all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWorry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTONBe courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
GEORGE WASHINGTONWe have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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 WASHINGTONNo punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
GEORGE WASHINGTON