"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence—true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo & withstand the shocks of a..."
From George Washington to Bushrod Washington | Wednesday, January 15, 1783
More"I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving."
Address to the Officers of the Virginia Regiment | Thursday, January 08, 1756
More"Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country."
Statement while delivering response to the first Newburgh Address | Saturday, March 15, 1783
More"I shall wear the Medal you were pleasd to Compli[men]t me with, with great pleasure; and shall present the other’s to Indian Chiefs as I have already done one to the Half King. I am particularly oblig..."
George Washington to Robert Dinwiddie | Monday, June 10, 1754
More"...every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country."
Letter to Benedict Arnold | Thursday, September 14, 1775
More"...arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
"Circular to the States" | Sunday, June 08, 1783
More"All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a powe..."
Letter to Catherine Macaulay Graham | Saturday, January 09, 1790
More"...the consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected, will always continue to prompt me to promote the progress of the former, by inculcating the practice of the latter."
From George Washington to the Protestant Episcopal Church | Wednesday, August 19, 1789
More"For myself, the delay may be compared to a reprieve; for in confidence I can assure you—with the world it would obtain little credit—that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied wi..."
From George Washington to Henry Knox | Wednesday, April 01, 1789
More"It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for ..."
Letter to Governor Dinwiddie, Aug. 27, 1757 | Saturday, August 27, 1757
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