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George Washington — Portrait after a picture by Gilbert Stuart (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

George Washington

Founding Father and first U.S. president

1732–1799

41 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Politics and America. Part of the U.S. Presidents and Founding Fathers collections.

The establishment of our new government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by a reasonable compact in civil society.
Letter to Catharine Macaulay Graham (1790)
- America
- Government
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.
Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette (25 July 1785)
- Democracy
- Government
For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.
Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island (18 August 1790)

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