All George Washington Quotes
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
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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
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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
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The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
George Washington
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George Washington
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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
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Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington
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War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
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