The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
George WashingtonMots clés political-system
A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
George WashingtonLabor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
George WashingtonMots clés conscience
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
George WashingtonTo encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
George WashingtonMots clés literacy encourage-literature-and-culture
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
George WashingtonOne of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
George WashingtonMots clés politics lies partisan
We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
George WashingtonAll obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
George WashingtonMots clés politics government laws political-parties obstruction factions mutual-interest
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)
George WashingtonMots clés freedom patriotism humility restraint
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