Quote

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous the first to salute, hear and answer and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

George Washington

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Washington
Age: 67 †
Born: 1732
Born: February 22
Died: 1799
Died: December 14
1St U.S. President
Cartographer
Engineer
Farmer
Land Surveyor
Military Officer
Politician
Slaveholder
Statesperson
Westmoreland County
Virginia
Washington
President Washington
G. Washington
Father of the United States
The American Fabius
First
Salute
Time
Friendly
Friendship
Forward
Answer
Pensive
Answers
Converse
Hear
Courteous
Firsts
Converses

More quotes by George Washington

Image
Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.
George Washington
Image
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
Image
My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.
George Washington
Image
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
George Washington
Image
The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
George Washington
Image
Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.
George Washington
Image
I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.
George Washington
Image
I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.
George Washington
Image
Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.
George Washington
Image
I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests.
George Washington
Image
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
George Washington
Image
Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.
George Washington
Image
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. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
George Washington
Image
Have the strength to be an honest person.
George Washington
Image
[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.
George Washington
Image
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
George Washington
Image
A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils
George Washington
Image
Freemasonry is an institution founded on eternal reason and truth whose deep basis is the civilization of mankind, and whose everlasting glory it is to have the immovable support of those two mighty pillars, science and morality.
George Washington
Image
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country.
George Washington
Image
The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.
George Washington