Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. "

George Washington

Related Quotes:

" 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

" Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. "

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

" It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it. "

George Washington

" 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. "

George Washington

" Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception. "

George Washington

" True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. "

George Washington

" Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. "

George Washington

" Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. "

George Washington

" Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. "

George Washington

" It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. "

George Washington

" Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. "

George Washington

" Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. "

George Washington

" Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals. "

George Washington

" We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. "

George Washington

" If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. "

George Washington

" To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. "

George Washington

" My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. "

George Washington

" 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. "

George Washington

" I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. "

George Washington

" The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure. "

George Washington

" My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. "

George Washington

" The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. "

George Washington

" 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. "

George Washington

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

George Washington

" I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. "

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

" Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. "

George Washington

" 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 it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting. "

George Washington

" Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. "

George Washington