George Washington Quotes

I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; and the pre-eminence of a free Government, be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its Citizens, and command the respect of the world.

[Thomas Jefferson is:] ... a slur upon the moral government of the world.

The secular law has as its task not to turn the world lying in evil into the Kingdom of God, but to prevent it from turning into hell.

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposition and knowing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well-doing.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Let there arise out from among you a party inviting to all that is good; enjoying what is right and forbidding what is wrong: they are the ones to attain felicity

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

God puts no nation in supreme place which will not do supreme duty. God keeps no nation in supreme place which will not perform its supreme duty …

A slur upon the moral government of the world

Morality is the object of government.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

The memory of the just survives in Heaven.

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.