Human need is really a great spiritual vacuum which God seeks to fill... With one hand in the hand of a fellow man in need and the other in the hand of Christ, He could get across the vacuum.


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It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them you...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Eu...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, mor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjunctur...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in th...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have te...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady ha...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpos...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and last...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them you...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a f...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operat...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostr...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them you...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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