George Washington

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

George Washington

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

George Washington

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

George Washington

There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.

George Washington

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

George Washington

There is no restraining men’s tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

George Washington

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

George Washington

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

George Washington

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

George Washington

Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.

George Washington