Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

—George Washington

About 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

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

—George Washington

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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Virtue consisted in winning: it consisted in being bigger, stronger, handsomer, richer, more popular, more elegant, more unscrupulous than other people—in dominating them, bullying them, making them suffer pain, making them look foolish, getting the better of them in every way. Life was hierarchical and whatever happened was right. There were the strong, who deserved to win and always did win, and there were the weak, who deserved to lose and always did lose, everlastingly.

—George Orwell

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Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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Who sows virtue reaps honor.

—Leonardo da Vinci

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