George Washington Famous Quotes
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
"To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody."
"Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man."
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
"The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government."
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
"Differences in political opinion are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary."
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
George Washington Quotations
What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
Jim Beggs
"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor."
Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death."
Mary Renault
"If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you."
Nikita Khrushchev
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M Barrie
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself.
Jeanne Moreau
"It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment."
Colin Greenwood