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is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man. I had rather be on my own farm, than be emperor of the world.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful and most noble employment of man. I had rather be on my own farm, than be emperor of the world.

is an asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.

. . . an asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732-1799) General Orders April 18, 1783

is a document that could have been made more perfect, but it is desirable, as a constitutional door is opened for amendment hereafter.

I wish the Constitution, which is offered, had been made more perfect... but I sincerely believe it is the best that could be obtained at this time. And, as a constitutional door is opened for amendment hereafter, the adoption of it, under the present circumstances of the Union, is in my opinion desirable.GEORGE WASHINGTON To Patrick Henry, September 24, 1787

 must always feel before it can see... thus, it is slow, but the people will be right at last.

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. GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732-1799) To Marquis de Lafayette, July 25, 1785

is a light for which many men have died in darkness.

is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington

is the child of avarice. the brother of inquiry and the father of mischief.

is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force.

is a thing no man should hesitate to use to preserve liberty, Yet they should be used as a last resort.

That no man should scruple, or hesitate a moment to use arms in defense of so valuable a blessing [as liberty], on which all the good and evil of life depends, is clearly my opinion. Yet arms . . . should be the last resort. GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732-1799) To George Mason, April 5, 1769

is, not always peaceful. As a last resort, no man should hesitate to use arms to preserve this most valuable blessing, a blessing on which all the good and evil of life depends.

is a plant of rapid growth when it begins to take root.

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

 involves guarding against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. - George Washington, 1796

is produced by nothing more than by being well prepared to meet an enemy.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet an enemy.

Perfection falls not to the share of mortals.

is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.

is the protection for every man in worshiping the deity according to the dictates of his own conscience so long as he conducts himself as a good citizen.

Every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable, to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshiping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience. GEORGE WASHINGTON (1732-1799) Letter to the United Baptist Church of Virginia, May 1789

is a man whose writings have had a powerful effect upon the public mind and thus ought to meet an adequate reward.

is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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