George Washington Quotes

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.

We must consult our means rather than our wishes.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

To err is nature, to rectify error is glory.

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.

The Constitution that we have is an excellent one, if we can keep it where it is.

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force...Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.

It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

When there is no vision, there is no hope.

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

At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.

There is no name so sweet on earth, no name so sweet in heaven, The name, before His wondrous birth, to Christ the Savior given.

Honesty is always the best policy.

It is simply service that measures success.

Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.