George Washington

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.

The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.

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

My anxious recollections my sympathetic feeling and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

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.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.

No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

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.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

Working on your biceps Try chopping down a cherry tree.

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

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

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

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

To form a new government requires infinite care and unbounded attention for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Influence is no Government.

It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad.

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

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

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

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

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

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

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.

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

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

We take the stars from heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity, representing our liberty.

The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one and let your hand give in proportion to your purse remembering always the estimation of the widows mite but that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity all however are worthy of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.

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.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these States of worshipping Almighty God agreable to their consciences is not only among the choicest of their blessings but also of their rights.

Agriculture is the most healthful most useful and most noble employment of man.

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

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

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly to form right decisions.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

A free people ought...to be armed

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

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.

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

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

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.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere.

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.

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

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference. They deserve a place of honor with all that is good. When firearms go all goes. We need them every hour.

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.

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.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.

Every action done in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those that are present.

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

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.

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 value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

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

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

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

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

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

True 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.

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.

It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

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

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

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

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

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

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

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

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

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