Quotes by 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.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”

“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.”

“[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return”