More from George Washington

  1. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties o…
  2. Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.
  3. Parade with me my brave fellows, we will have them soon!
  4. Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious.
  5. To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life -…
  6. If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can…
  7. There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody bu…
  8. Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.

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