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George Washington Quotes about Happiness

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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

George Washington
Happiness, Mind, World
George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.44, Rowman & Littlefield

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

The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.

George Washington
Happiness, Practice, Moral
George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral and Religious”, p.308