Quotes from George Washington

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

The most enviable praise of all is just to be called an honest man.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves.

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.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

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.

No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid more necessary.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

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

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest