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George Washington Famous Quotes
George Washington Famous Quotes. These quotes are from George Washington's
own letters, diaries and speeches. George Washington was undoubtedly the
greatest leader of the Revolutionary War. These George Washington Famous Quotes are listed in
chronological order with links to more at the bottom.
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George Washington Famous Quotes
"Persuaded that if ever a crisis should arise to call forth the good sense and
spirit of the People, no deficiency in either, will be found." - Letter to
Rufus King, June 25, 1797
"I am clearly in sentiment with you that every man who is in the vigor of life,
ought to serve his country, in whatever line it requires and he is fit for."
- Letter to David Humphreys, June 26, 1797
"I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see a policy of
a gradual Abolition of Slavery." - Letter to Lawrence Lewis, August 4, 1797
"Candor is not a more conspicuous trait in the character of Governments than
it is of individuals." - Letter to Timothy Pickering, August 29, 1797
"The unity of Government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear
to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real
independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of
your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty, which you so highly prize."
- Farewell Address, September 19, 1797
"If a person only sees, or directs from day to day what is to be done, business
can never go on methodically or well, for in case of sickness, or the absence of
the Director, delays must follow. System to all things is the soul of business.
To deliberate maturely, and execute promptly is the way to conduct it to advantage.
With me, it has always been a maxim, rather to let my designs appear from my works
than by my expressions." - Letter to James Anderson, December 21, 1797
"The man who does not estimate time as money will forever miscalculate; for
altho' the latter is not paid for the former, it is nevertheless a sure item
in the cost of any undertaking." - Letter to James Anderson, December 21,
1797
"System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing
more easy." - Letter to George Washington Parke Custis, January 7, 1798
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"It has been a maxim with me from early life, never to undertake anything without
perceiving a door to the accomplishment, in a reasonable time and with my own
resources." - Letter to Thomas Law, May 7, 1798
"A fear that your application to books is not such as it ought to be, and that the
hours that might be more profitably employed at your studies are misspent in this
manner. Recollect again the saying of the wise man, "There is a time for all things,"
and sure I am this is not a time for a boy of your age to enter into engagements
which might end in sorrow and repentance." - Letter to George Washington Parke
Custis, June 13, 1798
"The Inspector General, Quartermaster General, Adjutant General, and Officer
commanding the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, ought to be men of the most
respectable character, and of first-rate abilities; because, from the nature of
their respective offices, and from their being always about the Commander-in-Chief,
who is obliged to entrust many things to them confidentially, scarcely any movement
can take place without their knowledge... Besides possessing the qualifications
just mentioned, they ought to have those of Integrity and prudence in an eminent
degree, that entire confidence might be reposed in them. Without these, and their
being on good terms with the Commanding General, his measures, if not designedly
thwarted, may be so embarrassed as to make them move heavily on." - Letter to
James McHenry, July 4, 1798
"Humanity and feeling for the sick and wounded of an army call loudly for skill,
attention, and economy in the director of the hospitals." - Letter to James
McHenry, July 4, 1798
"Satisfied therefore, that you have sincerely wished and endeavoured to avert
war, and exhausted to the last drop, the cup of reconciliation, we can with
pure hearts appeal to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and may confidently
trust the final result to that kind Providence who has heretofore, and so often,
signally favoured the People of these United States." - Letter to President
John Adams, July 13, 1798
"It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes."
- Letter to James McHenry, August 10, 1798
"It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones."
- Letter to James McHenry, August 10, 1798
"It is an invariable maxim with me, never, before hand, and until the moment
requires it, to pledge myself by promises which I might find embarrassing to
comply with." - Letter to Charles Carroll, August 2, 1798
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"My first wish would be, that my military family and the whole army should
consider themselves as a band of brothers, willing and ready to die for each
other." - Letter to Henry Knox, October 21, 1798
"It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and
principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary,
no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am. The idea that I meant
to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this
Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of
the first, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible
of separation). That Individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder,
or instrument employed to found, the Democratic Societies in the United States,
may have had these objects; and actually had a separation of the People from
their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned." - Letter to
Rev. G. W. Snyder, October 24, 1798
"Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn
manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally."
- Farewell Address, September 19, 1798
"And which allows me to add little more now, than thanks for your kind wishes
and favourable sentiments, except to correct an error you have run into, of
my Presiding over the English lodges in this Country. The fact is, I preside
over none, nor have I been in one more than once or twice, within the last
thirty years. I believe notwithstanding, that none of the Lodges in this
Country are contaminated with the principles ascribed to the Society of
the Illuminati. With respect I am &c." - Letter to G. W. Snyder,
September 25, 1798
"To give you a Complete View of the politics and Situation of things in this
Country would far exceed the limits of a letter; and to trace effects to their
Causes would be a work of time. But the sum of them maybe given in a few words,
and amounts to this. That a party exists in the United States, formed by a
Combination of Causes, which oppose the Government in all its measures, and
are determined (as all their Conduct evinces) by Clogging its Wheels indirectly
to change the nature of it, and to Subvert the Constitution. To effect this no
means which have a tendency to accomplish their purposes are left unessayed.
The friends of Government who are anxious to maintain its neutrality, and to
preserve the Country in peace, and adopt measures to produce these, are charged
by them as being Monarchists, Aristocrats, and infractors of the Constitution;
which according to their Interpretation of it would be a mere Cypher; while
they arrogated to themselves, (until the eyes of the people began to discover
how outrageously they had been treated in their Commercial concerns by the
Directory of France, and that, that was a ground on which they could no longer
tread). the sole merit of being the friends of France, when in fact they had no
more regard for that Nation than for the Grand Turk, further than their own
views were promoted by it; denouncing those who differed in Opinion; whose
principles are purely American; and whose sole view was to observe a strict
neutrality, with acting under British influence, and being directed by her
counsels, now with being her Pensioners..." - Letter to the Marquis de
Lafayette, December 25, 1798
"The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions."
- Letter to Patrick Henry, January 15, 1799
"The favourable sentiments which others, you say, have been pleased to express
respecting me, cannot but be pleasing to a mind who always walked on a straight
line, and endeavoured as far as human frailties, and perhaps strong passions,
would enable him, to discharge the relative duties to his Maker and fellowmen,
without seeking any indirect or left handed attempts to acquire popularity."
- Letter to Rev. Bryan Fairfax (Lord Fairfax), January 20, 1799
"On reconsidering the uniform for the Commander-in-Chief as it respects myself
personally, I was against all embroidery. Do not conceive that fine clothes
make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain genteel
dress is more admired, and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery, in
the Eyes of the judicious and sensible." - Letter to James McHenry,
January 27, 1799
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