One of the most influential founding fathers and as a beacon of democracy in a
time where military might was seen as more important than the will of the people.
George Washington was the President while securing America’s independence. He
is generally accepted as one of the most important Presidents in the history of our country.
During his service as President, Washington was, more than anything, a model of democracy to future
presidents, setting precedents in many areas including a faith in civil, not military, rule and a focus on the
will of the people above all things.
From a religious perspective, George Washington was a controversial figure. Like many of the founding fathers,
he was a Deist – believing in God, but not believing that God intervenes on a day to day basis.
Throughout his life, Washington was a proponent of democracy, fair treatment of slaves, and the will of the
Freemasons, and organization in which he was heavily involved.
(1732 - 1799)
We 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
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
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance
can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
~ George Washington
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
~ George Washington
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more
than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
~ George Washington
Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have
all of my conduct distinguished by it.
~ George Washington
It is better to be alone than in bad company.
~ George Washington
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
~ George Washington
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve
a place of honor with all that's good.
~ George Washington
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
~ George Washington
I 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
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before
it is entitled to the appellation.
~ George Washington
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
~ George Washington
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
~ George Washington
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
~ George Washington
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
~ George Washington
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
~ George Washington
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
~ George Washington
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and
experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
~ George Washington
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
~ George Washington
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most
powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
~ George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
~ George Washington
Over 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
He was the thirty-fifth president of the United States. He was the first president to reach for
the moon, through the nation's space programs. He also was the first president since Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919) with whom youth could identify. He made the nation see itself with new eyes.
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy
was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest
man elected President; he was the youngest to die. His assassination shocked the world.
(1917 - 1963)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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