Accounts Quote by George Washington

It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe, without the agency of a Supreme Being. It is impossible to govern the…

— George Washington

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

— George Washington

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his…

— George Washington

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

— George Washington

No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks His aid…

— George Washington

No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid…

— George Washington

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate…

— George Washington

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

— George Washington

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

— George Washington

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute…

— George Washington

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

— George Washington

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

— George Washington

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

— George Washington

The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself…

— George Washington