"To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we……" — George Washington

"To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them."

— George Washington

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525 Quotes by George Washington

George Washington has 525 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of…
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted…
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part…
[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands…
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.
The United States is in no way founded upon the Christian religion

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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class… — Alfred Austin
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of… — Joseph Addison
The destruction of India's village system was the greatest of England's blunders. — Annie Besant
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are… — Annie Besant
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but… — William Ellery Channing
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. — Winston Churchill
No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If… — Vernon Howard
The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty… — Sun Tzu
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers
Success covers a multitude of blunders. — George Bernard Shaw
When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder... — John Kenneth Galbraith

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