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1777 - letter to Philip Schuyler
Category: Advice
We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.
Reference: Washington's Maxims, 16.
1776 - General Orders
Category: Courage
We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.
Reference: George Washington: A Collection, W.B. Allen, ed. (71)
1776 - General Orders
Category: Patriotism
The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
Reference: Maxims of George Washington, Schroeder, ed. (86)
1789 - letter to the Legislature of Pennsylvania
Category: Patriotism
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.
Reference: Maxims of George Washington, Schroeder, ed. (37)
1789 - letter to the General Committee of the United Baptist Churches in Virginia
Category: Religious Liberty
I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.
Reference: Washington's Maxims, 175.
1793 - letter to the Members of the New Church in Baltimore
Category: Religious Liberty
We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.
Reference: Washington's Maxims, 180.
1797 - letter to Lawrence Lewis
Category: Slavery
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see a policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery.
Reference: Washington's Maxims, 158.
1786 - letter to Marquis de Lafayette
Category: Slavery
[Y]our late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it.
Reference: Washington's Maxims, 159.
1799 - letter to Robert Lewis
Category: Slavery
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species...and to disperse the families I have an aversion.
Reference: Washington's Maxims, 159.
1785 - letter to Marquis de Lafayette
Category: Slavery
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work.
Reference: Washington's Maxims, 157.
George Washington
1786 - letter to Robert Morris
Category: Slavery
[T]here is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it.
Reference: Washington's Maxims, 157.
George Washington
1796 - Farewell Address
Category: Taxation
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.
1776 - General Orders
Category: War for Independence
[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
Reference: Washington's Maxims, 86.
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