“As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is, to use it as sparingly as possible; avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it; avoiding likewise the accumulation of [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Farewell Address’
June 28, 2007
George Washington on Honesty
“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs that honesty is always the best policy.”
– George Washington, Farewell Address, 19 September 1796
June 27, 2007
George Washington on the Union
“Your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.”
– George Washington, Farewell Address, 19 September 1796
