Quotes By George Washington

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

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

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

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.

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.

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

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.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

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.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

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

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

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.

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

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

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

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.

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.

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

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

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

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.