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1st U S President Inspirational Quotes (362)

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To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
George Washington
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude
George Washington
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Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
George Washington
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I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.
George Washington
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another.
George Washington
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I am just going. Have me decently buried and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well.
George Washington
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I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government a government, which, being formed to secure happiness of the French people, corresponds with the ardent wishes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States, by its resemblance to their own.
George Washington
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In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.
George Washington
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Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
George Washington
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Being a politician makes your hair turn white.
George Washington
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No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency
George Washington
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Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
George Washington
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For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
George Washington
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The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.
George Washington
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To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.
George Washington
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A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
George Washington
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The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.
George Washington
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There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
George Washington
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The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.
George Washington
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A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils
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We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
George Washington
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The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...
George Washington
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[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.
George Washington
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