George Washington was a politician and soldier who served as the 1st President of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Washington was also one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Listed are some very interesting quotes I thought you might enjoy. History is Awesome.
"To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to James Welch, Apr. 7, 1799
"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Elbridge Gerry, Jan. 29, 1780
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to James Madison, Mar. 2, 1788
"While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the rights of conscience in others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to him only in this case they are answerable."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Benedict Arnold, Sep. 14, 1775
"Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Governor Dinwiddie, May 29, 1754
"At a time, when our lordly masters in Great Britain will be satisfied with nothing less than the deprivation of American freedom, it seems highly necessary that something should be done to avert the stroke, and maintain the liberty, which we have derived from our ancestors. But the manner of doing it, to answer the purpose effectually, is the point in question. That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment, to use arms in defence of so valuable a blessing, on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms, I would beg leave to add, should be the last resource, the dernier resort. Addresses to the throne, and remonstrances to Parliament, we have already, it is said, proved the inefficacy of. How far, then, their attention to our rights and privileges is to be awakened or alarmed, by starving their trade and manufacturers, remains to be tried."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to George Mason, Apr. 5, 1769
"I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Colonel Bassett, Jun. 19, 1775
"There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Mrs. George William Fairfax, Sep. 12, 1758
"Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Address to the Officers of the Virginia Regiment, Jan. 8, 1756
"It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Governor Dinwiddie, Aug. 27, 1757
"I have diligently sought the public welfare; and have endeavoured to inculcate the same principles in all that are under me. These reflections will be a cordial to my mind as long as I am able to distinguish between Good & Evil."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to the Speaker of the House of Burgesses, Dec. 1756
"The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be counteracted by the utmost efforts of human power or wisdom, resignation, and as far as the strength of our reason and religion can carry us, a cheerful acquiescence to the Divine Will, is what we are to aim."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Colonel Bassett, Apr. 25, 1773
"A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to the Speaker of the House of Burgesses, Dec. 1756
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