Top 100 Washington George Quotes
#1. Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.
George Washington
#2. A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.
George W. Bush
#3. In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.
George Washington
#4. It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together.
John F. Kerry
#5. I was concerned about the legality of the program, and so I asked lawyers - of which you got plenty of them in Washington - to determine whether or not I could do this legally. And they came back and said yes.
George W. Bush
#6. Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties
George Washington
#7. Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
George Washington Carver
#9. It's time for an American comeback ... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'
George Allen
#10. We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions ...
George Washington
#11. The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregard the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained. Inaugural address 1789
George Washington
#12. I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.
George Washington
#13. Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.
Sandra Lerner
#14. Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
George Will
#15. Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united
with faith in his justice
George Washington Goethals
#16. On August 26 the Assembly responded by conferring French citizenship upon Joseph Priestley, Jeremy Bentham, William Wilberforce, Anacharsis Cloots, Johann Pestalozzi, Thaddeus Kosciusko, Friedrich Schiller, George Washington, Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.
Will Durant
#18. We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.
George Washington
#19. When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered.
George Washington
#20. If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut.
Donald Trump
#21. It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
George Washington
#22. The United States of Andrew Jackson or George Washington is not the United States of Frederick Douglass or Sitting Bull. But we present our history from the perspective of the winners, from those in power
Chris Hedges
#23. When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.
George Washington Carver
#24. If now we were livingin the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they would consider him enemy combatant. But American, they consider him as hero.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
#25. I think we need people in Washington who really have more of a sense of a George Washington approach to it, which is to serve and go home. I think far too many of both parties see it as a career. And I don't think that's good for our country.
Scott Rigell
#26. There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
George Washington
#28. The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations.
George Washington
#29. 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.
George Washington
#30. A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
#31. I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such Circumstances, I should have taken my musket upon my Shoulder & entered the Ranks or ... had retir'd to the back country & lived in a Wig-wam. - GEORGE WASHINGTON
Joseph J. Ellis
#32. Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
George Washington
#33. It 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
#34. The people must remain ever vigilant against tyrants masquerading as public servants.
George Washington
#35. I will always remember
when the stars fell down around me
and lifted me up above
the George Washington Bridge.
Faith Ringgold
#36. No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.
~Message to the House of Representatives, 3 December 1793
George Washington
#37. If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.
George Washington
#38. Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
George Washington Carver
#39. We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.
William J. Clinton
#40. Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.
Will Rogers
#41. Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.
John Adams
#42. All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.
George Washington Carver
#43. It 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
#44. When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.
George Washington
#45. In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.
George Washington
#46. My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.
George Washington
#47. Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
George Washington
#48. The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese and Spanish explorer
George Washington
#49. The men who mine coal and fire furnaces and balance ledgers and turn lathes and pick cotton and heal the sick and plant corn - all serve as proudly, and as profitably, for America as the statesmen who draft treaties and the legislators who enact laws.
George Washington
#50. Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.
George Washington Carver
#51. Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
George Washington Carver
#53. If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be
a Christian. Samuel Clemens "Mark Twain", American author and humorist
George Washington
#54. Soap is another article in great demand
the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.
George Washington
#55. Karl stood up and pointed at the large portraits on the wall. He swept the room from George Washington to Ben Franklin to John Adams to Thomas Jefferson. "Soldier, Printer, Lawyer, Scholar. You become a politician because the people make you one, not because you desire to be one.
Jeff Ferry
#56. I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.
George Stigler
#57. I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
George W. Bush
#58. But if we are to be told by a foreign Power ... what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.
George Washington
#59. I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)
George W. Bush
#60. For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.
Sydney Pollack
#62. In Washington, when you're a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what's right for the people.
George Pataki
#63. ...American history can be told and retold, claimed and reclaimed, even by people who don't look like George Washington and Betsy Ross.
Jeremy McCarter
#64. It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.
George Washington
#65. 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
#66. Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
George Lucas
#67. The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.
George Washington
#68. If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.
George H. W. Bush
#69. The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.
George Washington
#70. Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
George Washington Carver
#71. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberty.
George Washington
#72. Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.
George Washington
#73. But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
George Washington
#74. Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
#75. I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate.
George Washington
#76. Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.
George W. Bush
#77. George Washington famously warned against ... 'ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear
George Washington
#78. [V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
George Washington
#81. Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.
Jay Leno
#82. My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
George Washington
#83. A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils
George Washington
#84. My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington
#85. I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.
George Washington
#86. Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic.
Bill Maher
#87. The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.
Pete Rozelle
#89. I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
George Washington
#90. Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.
George Washington
#91. The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes.
George Washington
#92. The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington
#93. I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
Will Rogers
#94. A bank in Washington was robbed by two men in George W. Bush masks. Luckily, right afterwards two guys in President Obama masks came and bailed the bank out, so everything is fine.
Conan O'Brien
#95. That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired.
George W. Bush
#96. There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily
George Washington
#97. I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.
Rafe Esquith
#98. Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.
George Washington
#99. Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
George Washington
#100. It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
George Washington
