Quotes from George Washington
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
- George Washington
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.
- George Washington
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.
- George Washington
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
- George Washington
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.
- George Washington
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
- George Washington
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
- George Washington
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
- George Washington
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
- George Washington
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
- George Washington
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
- George Washington