Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
George Washington
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.
George Washington
Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
George Washington
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.
George Washington
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
George Washington
I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.
George Washington
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
George Washington
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.