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Quotations By George Washington


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

Freedom
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Government
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.

Liberty
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Peace
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. -- George Washington

War
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.