More Quotes by George Washington
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.
Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.
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.
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.
The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.
A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.
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.
You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.
When there is no vision, there is no hope.
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.
