George Washington

Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish.

— George Washington

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

— George Washington

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

— George Washington

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

— George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

— George Washington

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

— George Washington

99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.

— George Washington

To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable.

— George Washington

Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.

— George Washington

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

— George Washington

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. John Adams, U.S. President”

— George Washington

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of…

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by…

— George Washington

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by…

— George Washington

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. Samuel Clemens…

— George Washington

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape…

— George Washington

I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination.

— George Washington

While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher…

— George Washington

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan…

— George Washington

It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse: a blessing or…

— George Washington

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned…

— George Washington

Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine…

— George Washington

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and…

— George Washington

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would…

— George Washington

Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is…

— George Washington

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own --…

— George Washington

Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I…

— George Washington

“The common and continual mischief's [sic] of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and the duty of…

— George Washington

There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the…

— George Washington

By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different…

— George Washington

But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of…

— George Washington

“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic…

— George Washington

I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy…

— George Washington

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

— George Washington

The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

— George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

— George Washington

We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.'

— George Washington

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions...

— George Washington

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

— George Washington