George Washington

George Washington was an officer during the French and Indian War. He was elected to the House of Burgesses and became a revolutionary leader at the outset of the American Revolution, attending both the first and second Continental Congresses. George Washington was appointed Commander in Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. After the victory over the British he served as president of the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

George Washington was elected as the first President of the United States and served from 1789 until 1797.

Quotes by George Washington

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

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 power of promoting human felicity.

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

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power ... what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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