George Washington Quotes

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.

~ George Washington

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

~ George Washington

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

~ George Washington

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

~ George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

~ George Washington

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

~ George Washington

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

~ George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

~ George Washington

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

~ George Washington

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

~ George Washington

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

~ George Washington

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

~ George Washington

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

~ George Washington

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

~ George Washington

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

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

~ George Washington

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

~ George Washington

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

~ George Washington

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

~ George Washington

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

~ George Washington

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

~ George Washington

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

~ George Washington

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

~ George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

~ George Washington