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2 Quotes From George Washington About God And The Bible

First president of the US

2 Quotes From George Washington University

Alive from: 1732-1799

Category: Politics

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  Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

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  Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
  

• George Washington Carver

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  How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.

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  I didn't make these discoveries... God has only worked through me to reveal to His children some of His wonderful providence.

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  I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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  I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

• George Washington Carver

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  I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour and every moment of our lives, if we will only tune in and remain so.

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  It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
  

• George Washington

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  It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
  

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  It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

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  Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

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  Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

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

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  Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

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  Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.