George Washington quote: "We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience."

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GEORGE WASHINGTON

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To morrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in h...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, s...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of me...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Enjoin this upon the Officers, and let them inculcate, and press home to the Soldiery, the Necessity...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppre...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To admit then a right in the House of Representatives to demand, and to have as a matter of course, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the mos...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I have thought her liberties in such...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be draw...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denominat...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pr...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a go...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is ent...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contendi...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

My Mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my Mother. I attribute all my s...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wis...
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

I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigoro...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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

Written about Washington after his death by another of the founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson: His m...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To err is natural; to rectify error is glory.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

In his address of 19 September 1796, given as he prepared to leave office, President George Washingt...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I die hard but am not afraid to go.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who wo...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon
GEORGE WASHINGTON

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselve...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

An army of asses led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by an ass
GEORGE WASHINGTON

"The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just p...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true c...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity befo...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he im...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, f...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the plac...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Following his brief inaugural address to the Congress, President George Washington and his party wal...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

When I contemplate the interposition of Providence, as it was visibly manifested, in guiding us thro...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my succe...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plai...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a f...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It is better to be alone than in bad company.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proporti...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan ado...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is wor...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literatu...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supp...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianit...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Make the most of the hemp seed and sow it everywhere.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation?--Why quit our own to stand upon foreign groun...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances, with any portion of the foreign world--...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any pers...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The new constitution established a president with powers unheard of in the republican United States....
GEORGE WASHINGTON

I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received fr...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The Nation's first chief executive took his oath of office in April in New York City on the balcony ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion
GEORGE WASHINGTON

We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigoro...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

[W]e ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of re...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of t...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpos...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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

The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if h...
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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

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