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
alone
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
-George Washington
alone
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
-George Washington
alone
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
-George Washington
business
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
-George Washington
education
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
experience
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
experience
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
experience
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
-George Washington
experience
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
-George Washington
faith
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
-George Washington
freedom
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
-George Washington
friendship
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
friendship
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
friendship
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
-George Washington
god
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.
-George Washington
god
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
-George Washington
good
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
good
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
-George Washington
good
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
-George Washington
good
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
-George Washington
good
Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
-George Washington
government
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
-George Washington
government
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
government
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
-George Washington
government
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
-George Washington
government
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
-George Washington
government
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
-George Washington
government
The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
-George Washington
government
We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
-George Washington
great
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
happiness
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
-George Washington
history
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
-George Washington
history
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
hope
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
jealousy
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
-George Washington
life
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