More from George Washington

  1. The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority,…
  2. We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experienc…
  3. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
  4. We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order …
  5. The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unpara…
  6. When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.
  7. The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests …
  8. Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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