I 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 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 WASHINGTONMy mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
GEORGE WASHINGTONReligious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWorry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThings in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDiscipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
GEORGE WASHINGTONDecision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
GEORGE WASHINGTONHeard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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 WASHINGTONWe began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
GEORGE WASHINGTON