No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency
George WashingtonGeorge Washington famously warned against ... 'ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear
George WashingtonA slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George WashingtonBe courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
George WashingtonNo 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
Stichwörter: debt
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 WashingtonIf the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
George WashingtonStichwörter: american-revolution life-of-washington
The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
George WashingtonStichwörter: war
Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; this is all we can expect - We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our own Country's Honor, all call upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions - The Eyes of all our Countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings, and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the Tyranny meditated against them. Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and shew the whole world, that a Freeman contending for Liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
George WashingtonStichwörter: american-revolution
I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.
[Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, 22 June 1792]
Stichwörter: hatred protestants religious-violence regret catholics-vs-protestants disputes liberal-policy religious-controversy roman-catholics
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