- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
- Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
- Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
- There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
- Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
- True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
- Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
- Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
- My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
- The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
- The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
- We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
- If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
- Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
- Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
- I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
20 George Washington Quotes
