Saturday, February 21, 2009

Two Birthdays on February 22



George is 277 years old. My mother's birthday is also February 22. She would have been 97. She died 13 years ago and I still miss her.

Remember that it is the actions, and not the commission, that make the officer, and that there is more expected from him, than the title.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Address to the Officers of the Virginia Regiment, Jan. 8, 1756

Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience

GEORGE WASHINGTON, Rules of Behavior

Date of Birth: February 22, 1732
Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation

GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter, Jan. 15, 1783
To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.
(I wonder what Brother Washington would have to say about the economy today?)
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to James Welch, Apr. 7, 1799
Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country

GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Benedict Arnold, Sep. 14, 1775
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.


GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter, Oct. 31, 1786

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.


GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Bushrod Washington, Jan. 15, 1783

Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.


GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Bushrod Washington, Jan. 15, 1783

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