My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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.
More George Washington Quotes
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Man is the religious animal.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Paper 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.
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There 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.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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It 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.
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