George Washington
George Washington
George Washingtonwas the first President of the United States, the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He presided over the convention that drafted the current United States Constitution and during his lifetime was called the "father of his country"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth22 February 1732
CountryUnited States of America
religious men law
...it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws...
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My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.
honesty individual states
It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
memories grateful long
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.
europe ties enmity
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
art pride equal
Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.
sunday men attendance
The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.
matter serious manners
Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters let it be somewhat grave.
men vanity littles
There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
success thinking events
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.
style may conviction
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.
company expensive
The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.
office politician refuse
I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
wise taken character
What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable & tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal & falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend.