Happiness Quotes by George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

— George Washington

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness

— George Washington

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

— George Washington

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

— George Washington

The grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.

— George Washington

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

— George Washington

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the…

— George Washington

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

— 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

It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her…

— George Washington

Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral…

— George Washington

Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the…

— George Washington

To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.

— George Washington

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this…

— George Washington

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept…

— George Washington

I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which,…

— George Washington

It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his…

— George Washington

Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty…

— George Washington

To every description of citizens, let praise be given. but let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of…

— George Washington

To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently…

— George Washington

The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil…

— George Washington

My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential…

— George Washington

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man…

— 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

“It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual…

— George Washington

“To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently…

— George Washington

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the…

— George Washington

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism… It should…

— 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

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

— George Washington

The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the…

— George Washington

The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our…

— George Washington

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.

— George Washington