George Washington

Bekannte Zitate von George Washington

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

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.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

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

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

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.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

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.

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

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

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

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.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

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

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.