Quotes from George Washington
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- George Washington
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
- George Washington
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
- George Washington
Lay waste all the settlements around... that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed ... listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected.
- George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breaks that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington
Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man.
- George Washington
Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
- George Washington
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
- George Washington
I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.
- George Washington
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
- George Washington
I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.
- George Washington
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.
- George Washington