Quotes from George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

May 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 happy.

Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man.

No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass.

Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude.

Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

The 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.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.