George Washington Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

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

“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”

“I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.”

“I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”

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

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

“My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.”

“Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.”

“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”

“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.”