Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George WashingtonThe Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. ... The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
George Washington...overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty.
George WashingtonTag: militarism
Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.
George WashingtonWherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.
George WashingtonAssociate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington[death]...the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return
George WashingtonTag: death abyss return traveler permitted
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
George WashingtonTag: inspirational leadership educational
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Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. In this sense it is, that your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
George WashingtonTag: government military-establishments
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
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