George Washington

George Washington

"Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise."
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"Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise."
George Washington
"My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution."
George Washington
"I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office."
George Washington
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
"To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny."
George Washington
"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."
George Washington
"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
George Washington
"Government is not reason it is not eloquence - it is force."
George Washington
"Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
George Washington
"It [gaming] is the child of avarice the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief."
George Washington
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
George Washington
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."
George Washington
"Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well-tried before you give them your confidence."
George Washington
"Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
George Washington
"We must never despair our situation has been compromising before and it has changed for the better so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times."
George Washington
"Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
George Washington
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
George Washington
"But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with."
George Washington
"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
George Washington
"The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to it animosity or two its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and it's interest."
George Washington
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