Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.
George Washington
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Always
Prepared
Fight
Fighting
Peace
Best
Way
More quotes by George Washington
In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.
George Washington
But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.
George Washington
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
George Washington
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.
George Washington
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
George Washington
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
George Washington
For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
George Washington
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable.
George Washington
Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.
George Washington
The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.
George Washington
Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.
George Washington
Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.
George Washington
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
George Washington
The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.
George Washington
Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.
George Washington
Merit rarely goes unrewarded.
George Washington
I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.
George Washington
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.
George Washington
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
George Washington
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.
George Washington
