Best George Washington Words
- Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South… Adoption
- The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all. Act
- [T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect. Constitution
- May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and… All
- Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer,… Acknowledging
- [M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply… Administration
- No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an… Consideration
- Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand:… All
- The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature… Been
- `Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every… Every Species
- Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every… Alas
- There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of… Advantage
- It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as… Choice
- Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless… Act
- To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad. Attention
- This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the… Adopted
- The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established… Duty
- The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was… Accommodation
- No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. Devised
- But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we… Contended
- My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep… Abroad
- Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly… Awake
- Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just. Best
- 'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it… Accept
- My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon… Administration
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