George Washington Quotes

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

George Washington

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: president
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799

Topics

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Motherhood informs my work 100 per cent.

Jessica Marais

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Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.

John Goodman

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Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

Amy Ray

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The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.

Ambrose Burnside

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There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else's language.

Steve Lacy

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The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.

Sirena Huang

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Experience counts in government even more than in business.

Mo Ibrahim

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I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

Milton Glaser

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Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.

Lucy Powell

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When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

Lisa Gardner

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I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

Jonathan Miller

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In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

Dick Cavett

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