George Washington Quotes

• Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

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  It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

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  There is no restraining men’s tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

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  To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

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  Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

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• The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

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• An old-fashioned Virginia fox hunt, gentlemen.

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• I can answer for but three things: a firm belief in the justice of our cause, close attention in the prosecution of it, and the strictest integrity.

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• Father, I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

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• The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

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• Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do–then do it with all your strength.

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• Law is not suggestion, it is force.

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• Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

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• Death…the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return.

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

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

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• It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

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• Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

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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.

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• Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

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George Washington (79)

Birth:	22nd February, 1732
Death:	14th December, 1799
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

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George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, British America. He was an American politician, army officer, and farmer. He was the first President of the United States from 1789–97, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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