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Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible (George Washington Quotes)
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible (George Washington Quotes)
If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach (George Washington Quotes)
There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity (George Washington Quotes)
We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture (George Washington Quotes)
Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust (George Washington Quotes)
The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government (George Washington Quotes)
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power (George Washington Quotes)
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters (George Washington Quotes)
Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other (George Washington Quotes)
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake (George Washington Quotes)
It would be repugnant to the vital principles of our government virtually to exclude from public trusts, talents and virtue, unless accompanied by wealth (George Washington Quotes)
Such, for wise purposes it is presumed, is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory, more than truth, is the palm contended for, that the post of honor is a private station (George Washington Quotes)
Every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest should be indignantly frowned upon (George Washington Quotes)
A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite (George Washington Quotes)
Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind (George Washington Quotes)
When a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves, and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes (George Washington Quotes)
We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime (George Washington Quotes)
The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which heaven itself has ordained (George Washington Quotes)
Without a humble imitation of the divine author of our blessed religion we can never hope to be a happy nation (George Washington Quotes)
Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it (George Washington Quotes)
Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand (George Washington Quotes)
Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? (George Washington Quotes)
Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman (George Washington Quotes)
The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it (George Washington Quotes)
The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace (George Washington Quotes)
That a national university in this country is a thing to be desired, has always been my decided opinion (George Washington Quotes)
The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant (George Washington Quotes)
The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government (George Washington Quotes)
The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the progress of the former by inculcating the practice of the latter (George Washington Quotes)