Best George Washington Quotes
71 George Washington quotes by 65 unique authors
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If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me,
— Ted Yoho
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If now we were livingin the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they would consider him enemy combatant.…
— Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't…
— Sydney Pollack
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He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington
— William E. Gladstone
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Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.
— Jack Paar
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Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has.
— Jacob Lew
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You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just…
— Benjamin Walker
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were…
— Larry Kramer
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I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from…
— Paul Keating
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Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed.
— Benjamin Franklin
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George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the…
— Will Rogers
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More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may…
— Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
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Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a…
— Ron Fournier
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I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away…
— Robert Frost
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George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their…
— Jeff Greenfield
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation,…
— Barbara Jordan
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Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't…
— Jay Leno
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I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.
— Mehmet Oz
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When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.
— Prince
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There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a…
— Carroll Quigley
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I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
— Will Rogers
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George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
— Mark Twain
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I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.
— Jesse Ventura
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Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?
— Steven Wright
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Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.
— Sandra Lerner
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