Best George Washington Lines
- My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners… Anxious
- The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its… Affection
- Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… Adequate
- Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake. Awake
- The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation,… Act
- I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed to… Ardent
- The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now… Attained
- Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last. Always Feel
- The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with. Army
- If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when… Acquisition
- There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. Antiwar
- Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war. Antiwar
- Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part. Antiwar
- I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love. Country
- No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words,… Aided
- [T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form… Character
- Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and… Admired
- It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming… Appears
- No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary… Clouded
- Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears… All
- It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people,… Adopted
- [M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the… Adopt
- The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings,… Been
- [L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger. Apparatus
- It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can… Been
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