01c. 1765 AD'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world - as far I mean as we are now at liberty to do it.George Washington / quote ↗
02c. 1765 ADI beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.George Washington / quote ↗
03c. 1765 ADLet your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.George Washington / quote ↗
04c. 1765 ADI hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.George Washington / quote ↗
05c. 1765 ADTo be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.George Washington / quote ↗
06c. 1765 ADMy first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.George Washington / quote ↗
07c. 1765 ADWar - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.George Washington / quote ↗
08c. 1765 ADThere is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.George Washington / quote ↗
10c. 1765 ADThe time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.George Washington / quote ↗
11c. 1765 ADObserve good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.George Washington / quote ↗
12c. 1765 ADLet us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.George Washington / quote ↗
14c. 1765 ADWe should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.George Washington / quote ↗
15c. 1765 ADThere can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.George Washington / quote ↗
16c. 1765 ADTruth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.George Washington / quote ↗
17c. 1765 ADIt will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.George Washington / quote ↗
18c. 1765 ADFriendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.George Washington / quote ↗
19c. 1765 ADMankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.George Washington / quote ↗
20c. 1765 ADThe basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.George Washington / quote ↗
21c. 1765 ADIt may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.George Washington / quote ↗
22c. 1765 ADOver grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.George Washington / quote ↗
23c. 1765 ADDiscipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.George Washington / quote ↗
