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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it.
George Washington
The establishment of our new government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by a reasonable compact in civil society.
George Washington
The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.
George Washington
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action.
George Washington
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species.
George Washington
We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart.
George Washington
My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it.
George Washington
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.
George Washington
We are apt to run from one extreme into another. To anticipate & prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism.
George Washington
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.
George Washington
There might, Gentlemen, be an impropriety in my taking notice, in this Address to you, of an anonymous production - but the manner in which that performance has been introduced to the Army - the effect it was intended to have, together with some other circumstances, will amply justify my observations on the tendency of that Writing.
George Washington
On these occasions I consider how mankind may be connected like one great family in fraternal ties-I endulge a fond, perhaps an enthusiastic idea, that as the world is evidently much less barbarous than it has been, its melioration must still be progressive-that nations are becoming more humanized in their policy-that the subjects of ambition & causes for hostility are daily diminishing-and in fine, that the period is not very remote when the benefits of a liberal & free commerce will, pretty generally, succeed to the devastations & horrors of war.
George Washington
If you tell the Legislatures they have violated the treaty of peace and invaded the prerogatives of the confederacy they will laugh in your face. What then is to be done? Things cannot go on in the same train forever.
George Washington
It is much to be lamented that each State, long 'ere this, has not hunted them down as the pests of Society, & the greatest enemies we have, to the happiness of America.
George Washington
Know my good friend that no distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder, and that the wonders of former ages may be revived in this.
George Washington
The Marquis de Lafayette is extremely solicitous of having a command equal to his rank.
George Washington
In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States.
George Washington
The friends of humanity will deprecate War, wheresoever it may appear; and we have experience enough of its evils, in this country, to know, that it should not be wantonly or unnecessarily entered upon.
George Washington
It is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness.
George Washington
The unfortunate condition of the persons, whose labour in part I employed, has been the only unavoidable subject of regret.
George Washington
I have heard much of the nefarious, & dangerous plan, & doctrines of the Illuminati, but never saw the Book until you were pleased to send it to me.
George Washington
Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.
George Washington
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