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If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me. -- Ted Yoho
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.' -- Will Rogers
If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. -- Donald Trump
When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody. -- Prince
Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? -- Steven Wright
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. -- Mark Twain
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. -- Robert Dallek
I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington. -- Jesse Ventura
The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address. -- Marianne Williamson
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. -- Robert Frost
You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person. -- Benjamin Walker
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true. -- Frances Farmer
There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. -- Carroll Quigley
People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. -- Sharron Angle
George Washington, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Ulysses Grant, Rutherford Hayes, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower all rode their wartime heroics into the White House. -- Jeff Greenfield
Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference. -- Jay Leno
I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.' -- Barbara Jordan
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington. -- Malcolm X
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on. -- Christine Quinn
Sitting in the Oval Office, beneath a painting of George Washington, with a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. over his right shoulder and a bust of Abraham Lincoln over his left shoulder, Obama told 'National Journal' that the country's economic woes are deep and endemic. -- Ron Fournier
The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many. -- Karyn Parsons
I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too. -- Paul Keating
Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with a list of black men that were qualified to be the president of the United States. So the Obama victory is progress for white people. -- Chris Rock
Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge. -- Michael Oren
My definition, a definition in the drill books from the time that General Von Steuben wrote the regulations for General George Washington, the definition of the object of military training is success in battle... It wouldn't be any sense to have a military organization on the backs of the American taxpayers with any other definition. -- Chesty Puller
I didn't mean to spend my life writing American history, which should have been taught in the schools, but I saw no alternative but to taking it on myself. I could think of a lot of cheerier things I'd rather be doing than analyzing George Washington and Aaron Burr. But it came to pass, that was my job, so I did it. -- Gore Vidal
George Washington had a tough second term. -- William Safire
He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington -- William E. Gladstone
When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote. -- Ben Nelson
If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me, -- Ted Yoho
I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge. -- Don Sherwood
I think George Washington owned guns. I've never seen any contradiction with that. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Every president since George Washington has taken executive privilege seriously. Every Republican president has. -- Jacob Lew
[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China. -- Calvin Coolidge
Celebrating Christmas without Christ is like celebrating George Washington's birthday without mentioning the first president. -- James N. Watkins
And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
I think there's no doubt that George Washington was the most important American to this time. -- Kevin Gutzman
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. -- Vincent Canby
George Washington Bridge? You throw yourself off the Brooklyn Bridge, traditionally. George Washington Bridge, who does that? -- John Goodman
If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept. -- Randall Terry
You can't really move forward until you look back.[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University] -- Cornel West
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. -- Mehmet Oz
From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties. -- Linda Chavez
I have the same birthday as George Washington. No I don't. I don't even know who George Washington is. -- Andrew VanWyngarden
I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge. -- Faith Ringgold
When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washingtonâ??s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. -- Mark Twain
Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators. -- Sandra Lerner
George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight. -- Noam Chomsky
I was with George Washington at Valley Forge, sitting around before an attack... gimme a break. That's over 70 years ago already. -- Don Rickles
President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it. -- Nikki Sixx
Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. -- Bill Maher
We've had Muslims in America since George Washington. And we've had many successful Muslims. We just lost a particular well-known one with Muhammad Ali. -- Hillary Clinton
He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it. -- Mark Twain
Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other. -- Jack Paar
Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it. -- Will Rogers
There have been many amazing Presidents in American history, including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, all of whom I greatly admire. -- Donald Trump
George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington. -- Billy Graham
I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City. -- Ronald Reagan
George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries. -- Will Rogers
In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.' -- D. James Kennedy
Actually, you know who gave the shortest inauguration speech in history? George Washington. It was only like three minutes long. Well, sure. George Washington couldn't tell a lie. -- Jay Leno
I think Jefferson and George Washington would strongly discourage you from growing marijuana, and their tactics to stop you would be more violent than they would be today. -- Newt Gingrich
I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. -- Susan Beth Pfeffer
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men. -- Larry Kramer
The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. -- S. I. Hayakawa
What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any idea that George Washington would be George Washington. -- Kevin Gutzman
There's a natural tendency to sanitize and polish any historical icon whether it be George Washington chopping down the cherry tree or Martin Luther King saying, "I have a dream." -- Taylor Branch
In fact, I think 500 years from now, the two Americans so far who will be remembered are George Washington and Neil Armstrong, who, amazingly hasn't been paid very much attention. -- Kevin Gutzman
George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society. -- Matthew Stewart
If now we were livingin the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they would consider him enemy combatant. But American, they consider him as hero. -- Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
The author distinguishes George Washington's leadership from that of another aristocratic general whose temperament was somewhat cold. Unlike him, Washington made the effort to at least appear to suffer with his troops. -- John Ferling
Lest anyone try to convince you that God should be separated from the state, our founding fathers, they were believers. And George Washington, he saw faith in God as basic to life. -- Sarah Palin
I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary. -- Rafe Esquith
There are plenty of Minutemen. People willing to be Minutemen. Where are the people that want to be George Washington? Where are the Benjamin Franklins? Where is Sam Adams? Where is John Adams? -- Beck
George Washington might have become our king, but chose not to. His governing idea was that government is our servant because we are inherently free. It is an idea too many in government today forget. -- Dick Armey
Every president since George Washington has respected this clause in the Constitution. We want to avoid that Constitutional potential crisis. And the way to do it is for Donald Trump - it`s not about him. -- Chuck Todd
Speaking of [Ronald] Reagan on the faith of the founders, he was particularly fond of George Washington, who he cited nearly 200 times, and almost twice as much as all the presidents since [John F.]Kennedy combined. -- Paul Kengor
John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.... George Washington warned us never to indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. -- Joe Lieberman
We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president. -- William J. Clinton
How many kids are in the Graveyard?""A bunch.""Who sends your supplies?""George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget.""How often do you receive new arrivals?""About as often as you beat your wife. -- Neal Shusterman
Black Americans are the only people in history who are for education instead of liberation. George Washington wasn't beating up on British for the right to open a college! The line isn't "Give me education or give me death." -- Dick Gregory
I would rank George Washington as America's greatest president, but he only had to defeat what was then the world's greatest military power with a ragtag group of irregulars and some squirrel guns, whereas Ronald Reagan had to defeat liberals. -- Ann Coulter
My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave. -- Paul Robeson
During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection. -- James Monroe
There are cases - for example, the American Revolution. George Washington's army lost just about every battle with the British, who had a much better army. The war was basically won by guerrilla forces that managed to undermine the British occupation. -- Noam Chomsky
The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses. -- Jacob Bronowski
If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Ken Titus taped a hotel key to his underwear to score with an airport security guard. -- Christopher Titus
It's the [George Bush] president's fiscal policies that have driven up the biggest deficits in American history. He's added more debt to the debt of the United States in four years than all the way from George Washington to Ronald Reagan put together. -- John F. Kerry
But in his Farewell Address, George Washington made it clear that he perceived no greater threat to the American experiment than a partisan demagogue who 'agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against the other' -- John Avlon
What Bannon and Trump have presented us with is an idea of America that's not been the traditional idea, not the Walt Whitman idea, not the George Washington, Abraham Lincoln idea, which is one of welcoming because we're the last, best hope of Earth. -- David Brooks
George Washington said, "All I am, I owe to my mother." That's so true. My mom pushed me to get in politics. She pushed me to learn a bunch of languages. She pushed me and inspired me. She is the reason why I'm in politics. -- Andrea Tantaros
For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. -- Sydney Pollack
Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full. -- Elayne Boosler
There is a reason why George Washington is always one of the top three presidents, and it's not because of his prowess as a military leader; it's not because of the incredible innovations in policy that he introduced. It's because he knew when it was time to go. -- Barack Obama
I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole! -- Robin Williams
I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly had character traits. You also know Abraham Lincoln overcame severe depression problems that he had when he was younger, which gave him the strength and the character later on. -- John McCain
Smart and savvy, the fearless female member of George Washington's Secret Six is a testament to the strong women who have helped to alter the course of history in this great nation, both in terms of large-scale battles and in the new opportunities they have helped create for future generations through their own fearless examples. -- Brian Kilmeade
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college? -- Jamaica Kincaid
Memes can be visual. Our image of George Washington is a meme. We don't actually have any idea what George Washington looked like. There are so many different portraits of him, and they're all different. But we have an image in our head, and that image is propagated from one place to another, from one person to another. -- James Gleick
The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a terrorist called Christopher Columbus. I want to talk about a terrorist called George Washington. I want to talk about a terrorist called Rudy Giuliani. The real terrorists have always been the United Snakes of America. -- Malik Zulu Shabazz
For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women. God used dreams to prepare Joseph for his future as a leader of nations. He gave battle plans to Gideon in a dream. Joan of Arc, Jacob, George Washington, Marie Curie, and the apostle Paul were all guided by their dreams. -- Andy Andrews
I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor. -- Aaron Schock
Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School. -- Maya Angelou
The George Washington Masonic National Memorial is a fitting tribute to so great a man and Mason. Its message should be as prominent in our lives as the Memorial itself in the skyline of the Federal City. Wherever we are, in Alexandria, Virginia, the District of Columbia of should be in our moral horizon, beckoning us to greater achievements as citizens and Masons. -- Henry Clausen
There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters. You wouldn't put a white actor in blackface to play Othello. You shouldn't have a white actor in what amounts to yellowface to play Asian. -- David Henry Hwang
We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt. -- Ben Stein
George Washington's brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country. -- George Carlin
I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky. -- George Carlin
You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University. -- Kerry Washington
I have just repeated word for word the oath taken by George Washington 200 years ago, and the Bible on which I placed my hand is the Bible on which he placed his. It is right that the memory of Washington be with us today, not only because this is our Bicentennial Inauguration, but because Washington remains the Father of our Country. -- George H. W. Bush
The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington. -- Pete Rozelle
[Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history." -- Paul Kengor
The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington. -- Simon Newcomb

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