Quotes about Washington

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Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man — Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. — Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious rea — Jay Leno
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. — George Washington
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to — George Washington, Writings
(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the my — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something th — Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
I would listen with growing outrage as hypocritical and obtuse American senators made all these demands of Iraqi legisla — Robert M. Gates, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Funny thing about love, ain’t it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn’t enough. — Eden Butler, Infinite Us
The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock. — Katharine Graham
Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison. — Christopher Hitchens
I swear if Washington moved any slower, we could be at war and it would all be over before they could even lift their sl — Ray Palla, H: Infidels of Oil
The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Fed — John P. Avlon
At a national political convention, you have hundreds of people who consider themselves at least as important as the Sec — Dave Barry, I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be — Ron Chernow
And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could — Ron Chernow
Old-growth forests met no needs. They simply were, in a way that bore no questions about purpose or value. They could no — Steve Olson
Learn to do common things uncommonly well — we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.
It was very damp and misty–which some people from outside the Pacific Northwest consider to be rain, but I do not. This — Ned Hayes, The Eagle Tree