Quotes from George Washington
Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.
- George Washington
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
- George Washington
Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.
- George Washington
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
- George Washington
Always speak the truth.
- George Washington
There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily
- George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- George Washington
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
- George Washington
Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.
- George Washington
Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
- George Washington
Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.
- George Washington
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- George Washington