George Washington Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
George Washington quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased president born on Jun 4, 1907). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 60 we have for him.
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
“Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.”
“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.”
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.”
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
“Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.”
“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.”
“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.”
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