The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.
George Washington Quotes
Let your heart feel for the affliction, and distress of every one; let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the Widows mite. But, that it is not every one who asketh, that deserveth charity; all however are worthy of the enquiry, or the deserving may suffer.
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Experience has proved, that chance is often as much concerned deciding… matters as bravery; and always more, than the justice of the cause.
I… make it my earnest prayer that God would… incline the hearts of the citizens… to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large.
I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.
Is the paltry consideration of a little pelf to individuals to be placed in competition with the essential rights and liberties of the present generation, and of millions yet unborn? Shall a few designing men, for their own aggrandizement, and to gratify their own avarice, overset the goodly fabric we have been rearing at the […]
By the miraculous care of Providence that protected me beyond all human expectation, I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, and yet escaped unhurt.
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.
I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to “Anarchy” or “Despotism”.
