George Washington Quotes Celebrating America's Ideals

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

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

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

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.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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

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.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

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

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

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.