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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

George Washington
Heart, Hands, Giving
George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.374

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

George Washington
Friendship, Family, True Friend
George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

George Washington
Wise, Wisdom, Inspiration

All I am I owe to my mother.

George Washington
Mother
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made.

George Washington
Law, Made, Has Beens
George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.249

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large.

George Washington
Prayer, Heart, Government

Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.

George Washington
Country, Real, War

The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.

George Washington
Real, Heart, Government
George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.8

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

George Washington
Party, Ideas, Revolution

Always speak the truth.

George Washington
Inspirational, Speak, Speak The Truth

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

George Washington
Book, Bases, Built
George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.362

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

George Washington
Giving, Brilliant, Speak
"The Writings of George Washington".

Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

George Washington
Giving, Constitution, Sanctions

In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.

George Washington
Men, Thinking, Voice
George Washington (1839). “Life”, p.303

Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

George Washington
Happiness, Government, Law
George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.20

In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.

George Washington
Running, Strong, Party
George Washington, Andrew Jackson (1862). “Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.11

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

George Washington
Arriving, Impossible, Reason
George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.342

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

George Washington
Peace, Government, Wish
George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.99

Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

George Washington
Men, Luxury, Too Late
George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1782). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.486

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington
Military, War, 4th Of July
George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.24, Rowman & Littlefield

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

George Washington
4th Of July, Government, Mankind
George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.141

It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.

George Washington
Doubt, Principles, United States
In a letter to George Washington Snyder, October 24, 1798.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

George Washington
Home, Agriculture, World
The Alumni Register of the University of Pennsylvania, p. 473, 1925.

It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.

George Washington
Country, Exercise, Thinking
United States. President, George Washington, United States (1825). “The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens”, p.106

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

George Washington
Decision, Citizens, Matter
George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1799). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.129