Quotes by George Washington

George Washington

`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

Government

Morality

Spring

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

Atheist

Giving

Government

… in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage.

America

Land

Prosperity

… the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

Army

Strong

Use

..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

Government Debt

Owing A Debt

War

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

Inspirational

Life

Religious

‘Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. ‘Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

Character

Pride

Real

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

Accumulation

Debt

Debt By Founding Fathers

[death]…the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

Abyss

Return

Traveler

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

Friendship

Sticks

Youth

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Abyss

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Acting

Action

Add

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Admire

Adoption

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Affection

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Agency

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Alcohol

All Time

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American Indian

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Anticipate

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Appreciation

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Quotes by George Washington

George Washington

`Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government.

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

… in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage.

… the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed.

..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

[death]…the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

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