100+ George Washington Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Confidence Courtesy Helping Intimate
Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Affection Attachment Choice Citizen Concerntrate Country
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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Harmony Humanity Interest Liberty Nation Policy
Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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Individual Liberty Preserve Rest Society
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Dreans Earth Man Plague
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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Alone Bad Company Character Friendship One Liner
A bad war is fought with a good mind.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Fight Mind One Liner Revenge War
To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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Attitude Calumny Duty Perserve Reply Silence
Experience 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.
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Enemy Experience Possession Prevention Teaching Wisdom
Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Earn Injurious Occasion Speak
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Exclusion Expectation Experience Moral Principles Reason Religion
Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Believe Bullet Charm Inspirational Sound Whistle
Every man thinks God is on his side.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Believe God Man One Liner
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Confidence Courteous Inspirational Intimate Try
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Government Moral Rules Species True Virtue
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Growth Inspirational Liberty Life Plant Rapid Root
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Experience Healing Lesson Past Profit Purpose
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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Conflict Hard Time Inspirational Success Triumph
The 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.
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Appearance Conceal Crises Greatness Live Moment Observed Occur Trivial Turn
Experience 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.
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Adopt Execution Experience Intervention Men Power Teaching
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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Depend Happiness Mind Person World
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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Army Discipline Esteem Soul Success Weakness
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Abuse Liberty Power Ruin
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Fools Happiness Man One Liner Sensible Woman
If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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Advance Happen Indifferent Quarter Revolution
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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Enemy Meet Peace Prepare Produce
Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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Absence Evil One Liner Speak

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