Although George Washington made many wise statements that people should listen to, here are a noted few:
- Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
- Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
- Government is not reason, it is not eloquent; it is force, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.
- If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for war.
- The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon.
- It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
- Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.