The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the Tyranny mediated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.


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We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpos...
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters o...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
well over an hour here . . . while the (Republican) leadership variously cajoled, bribed, browbeat, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed tha...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
...overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liber...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Real good, sore shoulder, good shape.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the be...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I was sorry to see the gloomy picture which you drew of the affairs of your Country in your letter o...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in th...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is,...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive p...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Compared with the previous occasion when Judge Jackson heard oral argument on the facts in September...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the Brit...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We'll be asking to set aside the Court of Appeals decision.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
After Braddock's Defeat: Terror in the Valley.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Among individuals, the most certain way to make a Man your Enemy, is to tell him you esteem him such...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
with black feathery trim -- because the founding father was ''so stiff.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
far worse than were Congress to enact no measure at all.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
What we're trying to do is use some of the same legal tactics that have been so effective against th...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
You are guilty of murder.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It's not the way it was when I was growing up. Things have changed.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Obviously, we need to see the details of all the patients and the adverse events to be able to inter...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I don't think it's a match-up problem. We have two of the best players around. We just didn't execut...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In the second half, we were down and we couldn't get back up.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Unless there's a judge somewhere who is just dying for a case like this, I think it will be put to a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in thei...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude
GEORGE WASHINGTON
May the Father of All Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths; and, make us in all o...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adop...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, mor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness
GEORGE WASHINGTON