Rights Quotes by George Washington

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

— George Washington

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people…

— George Washington

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all…

— George Washington

The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till…

— George Washington

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the…

— George Washington

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all…

— George Washington

If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside…

— George Washington

Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of…

— George Washington

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the…

— George Washington

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people,…

— George Washington

To each of my Nephews, William Augustine Washington, George Lewis, George Steptoe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of…

— George Washington

To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to…

— 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

Upon the whole I doubt whether the Benefits of opposition to the Constitution opposition to the Constitution will not ultimately be productive…

— 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

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates…

— George Washington

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be…

— George Washington

The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending…

— George Washington