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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

George Washington

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Fools Happiness Man One Liner Sensible Woman

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Adversity Appellation Friendship Growth Inspirational Shocks True
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Men One Liner Virtue
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Confidence God Inspirational Strength
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Abuse Liberty Power Ruin
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Harmony Humanity Interest Liberty Nation Policy
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Art Citizen Duty Encourage Goodness Literature Owe Responsiblity
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Commerce Door Fraud Honesty Justice Money Paper Species State
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Argument Judgement Modest Strive Submission Superior
Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Advantage Capable Goodness Interest Men Sacrifice
Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Individual Liberty Preserve Rest Society
A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Achievement Kindness Man Quality Rare Rich Value Virtue
Every man thinks God is on his side.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Believe God Man One Liner
Of 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 WASHINGTON

Appearance Exist Man Religion Sentiment
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 WASHINGTON

Character Firm Honesty Maintain Man Virtue
A bad war is fought with a good mind.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Fight Mind One Liner Revenge War
We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Confederation Good Human Human Nature Opinion
I 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 WASHINGTON

Enlight Fight Hope Liberty Peace Religion Society
Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Necessary Retirement Shade Weight Welcome
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

God Hands Honesty Repair Standard
Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Diffusion Importance Institution Knowledge Object Promote
The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Nation Peace Victim
Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Committed Fault Revolution Rights
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Depend Happiness Mind Person World
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Cause Controversies Hatred Productive Religion Spring
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Age One Liner Perseverance Spirit Wonder
Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Earn Injurious Occasion Speak