Best George Washington Proverbs
- I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement,… Amusement
- The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity. Any
- Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. Acrimony
- Working on your biceps? Try chopping down a cherry tree. Biceps
- The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint efforts and common dangers, sufferings, and successes. Common
- Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. Apart
- We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government. Apparently
- But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall… Any
- Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other. Any
- Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other. Freedom
- When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is… American
- When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly. Becomes
- To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them. Blunders
- We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought… Bark
- At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment. Action
- Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your reputation. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof.… Absent
- Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor. Believe
- ..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle. Battle
- The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings. Accustoms
- I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it… Accommodated
- When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the… Appetite
- May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late. August
- Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time. Convince
- I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. Chair
- I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every… Adopt
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