Quote: Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. [Washington George]
Quote: Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. [Washington George]
Quote: Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder. [Washington George]
Quote: When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. [Washington George]
Quote: Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. [Washington George]
Quote: Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. [Washington George]
Quote: Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company. [Washington George]
Quote: Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. [Washington George]
Quote: 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 sometimes extensive and terrible. [Washington George]
Quote: I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. [Washington George]
Quote: To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. [Washington George]
Quote: Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. [Washington George]
Quote: Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. [Washington George]
Quote: My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. [Washington George]
Quote: The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. [Washington George]
Quote: Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it. [Washington George]
Quote: Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. [Washington George]
Quote: It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief. [Washington George]
Quote: The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. [Washington George]
Quote: Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. [Washington George]
Quote: Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. [Washington George]
Quote: I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. [Washington George]
Quote: True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. [Washington George]
Quote: Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. [Washington George]
Quote: Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. [Washington George]