Quotes from George Washington
It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.
- George Washington
Influence is not government.
- George Washington
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
- George Washington
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.
- George Washington
Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
- George Washington
There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
- George Washington
To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.
- George Washington
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
- George Washington
History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
- George Washington
Honesty is always the best policy.
- George Washington
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
- George Washington
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
- George Washington