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George Washington (22 February 1732 – 14 December 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Second Continental Congress as commander of the Continental Army in June 1775, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and then served as president of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, which drafted and ratified the Constitution of the United States and established the American federal government.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Farewell Address (1796)
Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, Religion and Morality are indispensable supports.
Farewell Address (1796)
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
speech to the Constitutional Convention (1787)
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
Farewell Address (1796)
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Farewell Address (1796)
The Marquis de Lafayette is extremely solicitous of having a command equal to his rank.
To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
No man ever united in his own person a more perfect alliance of the virtues of a philosopher with the talents of a general.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called Conscience.
To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence.
Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!
a note to his gardener at Mount Vernon (1794)
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
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