More Quotes by George Washington
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
