Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
GEORGE WASHINGTONWhere are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
GEORGE WASHINGTONOne of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
GEORGE WASHINGTONReason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
GEORGE WASHINGTONPromote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
GEORGE WASHINGTONReal men despise battle, but will never run from it.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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 WASHINGTONI conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
GEORGE WASHINGTONA primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMuch was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
GEORGE WASHINGTONCitizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
GEORGE WASHINGTONTo encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWorry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
GEORGE WASHINGTON