Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy. George Washington More Quotes by George Washington More Quotes From George Washington [It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one. George Washington youthsticksfriendship It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known. George Washington voicerealreflection When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. George Washington 4th-of-julyarmysoldier It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God. George Washington wisehandspeople No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other. George Washington wallambitioncharacter Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last. George Washington lastsgovernmentpeople The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system. George Washington 4th-of-julygovernmentwisdom There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves. George Washington independentgivingmen Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. George Washington enmityrealwar 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 we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war. George Washington patrioticmenwar Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive. George Washington 4th-of-julybusinessattitude True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington true-friendinspirationfriendship Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions. George Washington officeasylumsrights Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind. George Washington governmentlawhappiness May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy. George Washington lightgodfather No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations George Washington powerfulmenthinking The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. George Washington patriotic4th-of-julyinspiration Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society. George Washington differencesreligiouschristian To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous. George Washington importantcharactermen May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy. George Washington lightfatherchildren
