George Washington Quotes

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Let me conjure you then, if you have any regard for your country, concern for your self or posterity, or respect for me, to banish these thoughts from your mind, never communicate, as from yourself, or anyone else, a sentiment of the like nature.

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.

My ardent desire is… to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.

The alternate triumphs of different parties … make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

Being a politician makes your hair turn white.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can’t have one without the other.

A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step.

Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.