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

—George Washington

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George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War against the British...

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It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

—George Washington

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

—George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

—George Washington

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

—George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

—George Washington

More quotations tagged with “conscience”

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

—George Sewell

There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.

Conscience is God's presence in man.

—Emanuel Swedenborg

In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress.

—Dutch Proverb

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

—Charlotte Bronte

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