George WashingtonDo not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroider… ▶371LifePolitics
George WashingtonMay the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly … ▶371Time
George WashingtonAssociate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. Speak no evil of the absent, for it is un… ▶372Truth
George WashingtonReligious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enligh… ▶372HopeTime
George WashingtonA primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing … ▶361HopePoliticsTime
George WashingtonMay the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately b… ▶361HumanityPolitics
George WashingtonI have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever g… ▶361LifePolitics
George WashingtonHonesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just. ✨ George Washington, J. M. Williams (1800). Washington's pol… ▶372DeathLifePolitics
George WashingtonIn a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. ✨ George Washington (1839). Life, p.303351LifePolitics
George WashingtonHappy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Em… ▶373Humanity
George WashingtonOf all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought … ▶352HumanityLifeTime
George WashingtonHuman rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any… ▶374HumanityPolitics
George WashingtonGovernment is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.363PoliticsTime
George WashingtonExample, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence. ✨ George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Pa… ▶363Politics
George WashingtonA government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.352Politics
George WashingtonThe business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers fr… ▶363LifeTime
George WashingtonThe very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. ✨ George Washingt… ▶374HumanityPoliticsThought
George WashingtonOur conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, an… ▶352PoliticsThought
George WashingtonI heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound. ✨ George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. O… ▶364Reading
George WashingtonThe power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choo… ▶353HumanityPoliticsTime
George WashingtonLet me live according to those holy rules which Thou hast this day prescribed in Thy Holy Word...direct me to the true object, Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. Bles… ▶331HumanityLifeTruth
George WashingtonDo not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.375Politics
George WashingtonWithout virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part … ▶342HumanityPolitics
George WashingtonFor if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Manki… ▶342HumanityHumorReflection
George WashingtonThere exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magna… ▶364Truth
George WashingtonWe are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national chara… ▶353Humanity
George WashingtonBe courteous to all, but intimate with few. ✨ George Washington (1852). The life of General Washington: first president of the United States, p.94332LifePolitics
George WashingtonI anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the… ▶376LifeLovePolitics
George Washington[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. ✨ George Washington (1855). Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious, p.308354Politics
George WashingtonLet your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. ✨ George Washington (1871). Words of Washington, p.8354Love
