George Washington Quotes - Page 22

• It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the World are turned upon them.

  George Washington

  Eye, Choices, Political

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.441

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• If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.

  George Washington

  Attitude, War, Government

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.11

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• I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him.

  George Washington

  Real, Men, Errors

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “(v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president”, p.237

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• System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.

  George Washington

  Execution, Easy, Should

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life.

  George Washington

  Practice, Forever, Healthy

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

  George Washington

  Hands, Victory, Revolutionary War

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.211

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• [death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

  George Washington

  Return, Traveler, Abyss

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• It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.

  George Washington

  Looks, Ease, World

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.403

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• It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.

  George Washington

  Justice, People, Giving

  George Washington, John Jay, Jared Sparks (1850). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America”, p.38, New York : J. Wiley

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• Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all men. For of the consolations which are to be derived from these (under any circumstances) the world cannot deprive me.

  George Washington

  Integrity, Men, Long

  George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the

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• Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.

  George Washington

  Men, Mind, Faces

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.246

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• Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

  George Washington

  Men, Bravery, Rewards

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.154

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• The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them.

  George Washington

  Care, Inattention, Fine

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1931). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799”

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• The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.

  George Washington

  Happiness, Practice, Moral

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.308

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• The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

  George Washington

  Success, Thinking, Events

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.316

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• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

  George Washington

  Men, Example, World

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.365

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• The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.

  George Washington

  Arrows, Vulnerable, Mark

  George Washington (1839). “Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life. May, 1789, to November, 1794 (v.10) November, 1794, to Demember, 1799 (v.11)”, p.359

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• The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Covenant, May

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.242

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• Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.

  George Washington

  People, Voting, Littles

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.358

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• I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

  George Washington

  Political, Connections, Diplomatic Relations

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• All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

  George Washington

  Office, Glare, Admire

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.177

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• Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

  George Washington

  Vices, Impossible, Human Nature

  George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.9

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• Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.

  George Washington

  Way, Relief, Brotherly Love

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• A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

  George Washington

  Punishment, Prison, Proportion

  George Washington (1840). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.396

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• A bad war is fought with a good mind.

  George Washington

  War, Mind, Good Mind

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