Quotes About George Washington
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The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.