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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
- George Washington

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!
- George Washington

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- George Washington

To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
- George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

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."
- George Washington

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- George Washington

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.
- George Washington

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
- George Washington

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
- George Washington

How soon we forget history.
- George Washington

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

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