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Public Quotes by George Washington
- Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force…
- Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under…
- Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer,…
- [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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- [L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.
- The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of…
- For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the…
- Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. ... The common and continual…
- Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
- As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.
- No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the Nation…
- One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of…
- Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity,…
- I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
- It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your…
- The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are…
- There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of…
- I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
- My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit, who is going to the place of…
- Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness
- I am exceedingly impressed with the Necessity of Oeconomizing the public Monies; but we must not spin this Thread so fine as to break it,…
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