Frases de George Washington
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George Washington /ˌdʒɔɹdʒ ˈwɑʃɪŋtən/[1]​[2]​[3]​ fue el primer presidente de los Estados Unidos entre 1789 y 1797[4]​[5]​[6]​ y comandante en jefe del Ejército Continental revolucionario en la guerra de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos . En los Estados Unidos se le considera el padre de la Patria.[5]​[6]​ Es considerado uno de los padres fundadores de los Estados Unidos junto con John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson y James Madison.

Washington empezó a ganar condecoraciones armando tropas de la colonia de Virginia para apoyar al Imperio británico durante la guerra franco-indígena , un conflicto que él inadvertidamente ayudó a iniciar.[7]​

El Congreso Continental designó a Washington comandante en jefe del Ejército Continental en 1775.[8]​ Al año siguiente, los británicos fueron desalojados de Boston, perdieron la ciudad de Nueva York y fueron derrotados en Trenton, Nueva Jersey, ante la sorpresa que causó Washington cruzando el río Delaware. Debido a su estrategia, fuerzas revolucionarias capturaron a los dos ejércitos principales de combate británicos en la batalla de Saratoga y en la de Yorktown. En negociación con el Congreso, los estados coloniales y los aliados franceses, mantuvo un ejército débil y una nación frágil en medio de las amenazas de desintegración y fracaso. Después de liderar la victoria estadounidense en la guerra de la Independencia, renunció a sus cargos militares y regresó a la vida en su plantación de Mount Vernon, acto que le trajo aún más renombre.

En 1787, presidió la Convención de Filadelfia que esbozó la Constitución de los Estados Unidos de América y en 1789, fue elegido de manera unánime como el primer presidente de los Estados Unidos. Trató de crear una nación capaz de sostener la paz con sus países vecinos. Su Proclama de la Neutralidad de 1793 sirvió de base para evitar cualquier implicación en conflictos extranjeros. Apoyó los planes de construir un gobierno central fuerte mediante el pago de la deuda nacional, la aplicación de un sistema fiscal eficaz y la creación de un banco nacional. Washington evitó la guerra y mantuvo una década de paz con Gran Bretaña con la firma del Tratado Jay en 1795, a pesar de la intensa oposición del Partido Demócrata-Republicano. Aunque nunca se afilió oficialmente al Partido Federalista, apoyaba su programa. Sus dos períodos de gobierno establecieron muchas políticas y tradiciones que existen hasta el día de hoy.

Antes de la finalización de su período de gobierno se retiró nuevamente a la vida civil, estableciendo un importante precedente de transición pacífica que ha servido de ejemplo no solo en los Estados Unidos sino también en otras futuras repúblicas. El Discurso de Despedida de Washington fue una introducción a la virtud republicana y una severa advertencia contra el partidismo, la sectorialización y la participación en guerras en el extranjero. Se le concedió la primera Medalla de Oro del Congreso con el agradecimiento de la Cámara en 1776.[9]​

Washington murió en 1799 debido principalmente a un tratamiento para su neumonía, que incluía calomelanos y sangrías, resultando en una combinación de choque hipovolémico, debido a la pérdida de cinco pintas de sangre, así como la asfixia y deshidratación. Henry Lee III fue quien pronunció la oración fúnebre, donde declaró que Washington fue el "primero en la guerra, primero en la paz y primero en el corazón de sus compatriotas".[10]​

Los historiadores frecuentemente lo han considerado como uno de los más grandes presidentes de Estados Unidos. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. febrero 1732 – 14. diciembre 1799
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Frases célebres de George Washington

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George Washington Frases y Citas

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“La religión y la moralidad son pilares esenciales de la sociedad civil.”

Fuente: El libro que dio forma al mundo. Mangalwadi, Vishal. Página 405. Grupo Nelson. 2011.

George Washington: Frases en inglés

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence,—it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.”

Attributed to "The First President of the United States" in "Liberty and Government" by W. M., in The Christian Science Journal, Vol. XX, No. 8 (November 1902) edited by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 465; no earlier or original source for this statement is cited; later quoted in The Cry for Justice : An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest (1915) edited by Upton Sinclair, p. 305, from which it became far more widely quoted and in Frank J. Wilstach, A Dictionary of Similes, 2d ed., p. 526 (1924). In The Great Thoughts (1985), George Seldes says, p. 441, col. 2, footnote, this paragraph “although credited to the ‘Farewell’ [address] cannot be found in it. Lawson Hamblin, who owns a facsimile, and Horace Peck, America’s foremost authority on quotations, informed me this paragraph is apocryphal.” It is listed as spurious at the Mount Vernon website http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/
Unsourced variant : Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
Misattributed, Spurious attributions
Variante: Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”

First Annual Address, to both Houses of Congress (8 January 1790).
Compare: "Qui desiderat pacem præparet bellum" (translated: "Who would desire peace should be prepared for war"), Vegetius, Rei Militari 3, Prolog.; "In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello" (translated: "In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war"), Horace, Book ii. satire ii.
1790s

“Men's minds are as variant as their faces, and, where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.”

Letter to Benjamin Harrison V (9 March 1789), published in Washington's Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=DTlEAQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-DTlEAQAAMAAJ&rdot=1, Volume IX, p. 475.
1780s

“I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St. foin seed, and that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St. foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where.”

George Washington in a letter to William Pearce at Mount Vernon (Philadelphia 24th Feby 1794), The Writings of George Washington, Bicentennial Edition 1939, p.279 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=WIGyAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA279&dq=hemp, and founders.archives.gov https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-15-02-0210
This quote is often confused with Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere! George Washington Spurious Quotations http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/
1790s

“So, there lies the brave de Kalb. The generous stranger, who came from a distant land to fight our battles and to water with his blood the tree of liberty. Would to God he had lived to share its fruits!”

Upon visiting the grave of Johann de Kalb, some years after his death, as quoted in "Baron De Kalb" https://books.google.com/books?id=40wyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA96&dq=%22Would+to+God+he+had+lived+to+share+its+fruits%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2IoZVa3XLuyasQTXiIDoCg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Would%20to%20God%20he%20had%20lived%20to%20share%20its%20fruits%22&f=false (1827), by George R. Graham and Edgar Allan Poe, Graham's Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Romance, Art, and Fashion, Volume 2, Watson, p. 96.
Posthumous attributions

“Unhappy it is though to reflect, that a Brother's Sword has been sheathed in a Brother's breast, and that, the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous Man hesitate in his choice?”

Letter to Mr. George William Fairfax (31 May 1775) George Washington Papers http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mgw:@field(DOCID+@lit(gw030206)) at the Library of Congress
1770s

“I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection; that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to Government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large; and, particularly, for their brethren who have served in the Geld; and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation.”

Circular Letter to the Governours of the several States (18 June 1783). Misreported as "I make it my constant prayer that God would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion; without a humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation", in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 315
1780s

“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.”

A modern fabrication, possibly derived from David Barton's claim (Original Intent, p. 85) that "By George Washington’s own words, what youths learned in America’s schools 'above all' was 'the religion of Jesus Christ.'”. Washington did use the phrase "above all the religion of Jesus Christ" on 12 May 1779 in a reply to a petition from a Lenape delegation asking for assistance in promoting the missionary activities of David Zeisberger among their people: "You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention..." He did not say anything about "What students would learn in American schools," though earlier in the same reply he did say "I am glad you have brought three of the Children of your principal Chiefs to be educated with us." While there's nothing in the reply about how those "Children" might be educated (in fact Congress put two of them through Princeton) it's possible that suggested the fabricated portion. See Louise Phelps Kellogg, Frontier Advance on the Upper Ohio 1778-1779 (Madison WI, 1916), pp. 317-324, for the episode. Washington's reply is also found in John C. Fitzpatrick, The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799, vol. 15 (Washington D.C., 1936), p. 55
Misattributed, Spurious attributions

“As mankind become more liberal they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality.”

Letter to the Roman Catholics in America http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-to-the-roman-catholics/ (15 March 1790)
1790s
Variante: As mankind become more liberal they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality.

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it.”

Oliver Cromwell, letter to Walter Dundas, 12 September 1650; this is also a recent misattribution.
Misattributed

“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.”

US Senator William Edgar Borah, writing in The Reader's Digest, Vol. 8, Issue 2 (1929), p. 776; this has only rarely begun to be attributed to Washington, since about 2010.
Misattributed

“It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.”

Letter to James McHenry (10 August 1798)
1790s

“I am sure there never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe, that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God, who is alone able to protect them.”

Letter to John Armstrong, 11 March 1782, in Ford's Writings of George Washington (1891), vol. XII, p. 111. This is frequently attached to part of a letter to Brigadier-General Nelson of 20 August 1778, as in this 1864 example from B. F. Morris, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, pp. 33-34:
I am sure that there never was a people who had more reason to acknowledge a divine interposition in their affairs than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency which was so often manifested during the Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them. He must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.
1780s

“The many remarkable interpositions of the divine government, in the hours of our deepest distress and darkness, have been too luminous to suffer me to doubt the happy issue of the present contest.”

Letter to General Armstrong (26 March 1781) http://www.greatseal.com/mottoes/coeptis.html, as quoted in The Religious Opinions and Character of Washington (1836) by Edward Charles McGuire, p. 122
1780s

“[F]ree Negroes who have served in this army are very much dissatisfied at being discarded. As it is to be apprehended that they may seek employ in the Ministerial Army, I have … given license for their being enlisted.”

To John Hancock https://web.archive.org/web/20141008220806/http://amrevmuseum.org/reflections/african-americans-continental-army-and-state-militias-during-american-war-independence (31 December 1775)
1770s, Letter to John Hancock (1775)

“We had quitters during the Revolution too… we called them "Kentuckians."”

This attribution apparently originated with a statement of a cartoon version of Washington on an episode http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701155/quotes of The Simpsons. Though not initially presented as a genuine quote this has sometimes been attributed to Washington.
Misattributed, Spurious attributions

“In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.”

Message to the U.S. Congress (9 July 1789); The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private (1837) edited by Jared Sparks, p. 159 (PDF) http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC29437768&id=qy2nqT6FnLMC&pg=RA1-PA159&lpg=RA1-PA159&dq=%22carrying+these+into+effect,+fidelity+and+diligence%22&num=100
1780s

“The Author of the piece, is entitled to much credit for the goodness of his Pen: and I could wish he had as much credit for the rectitude of his Heart — for, as Men see thro’ different Optics, and are induced by the reflecting faculties of the Mind, to use different means to attain the same end; the Author of the Address, should have had more charity, than to mark for Suspicion, the Man who should recommend Moderation and longer forbearance — or, in other words, who should not think as he thinks, and act as he advises. But he had another plan in view, in which candor and liberality of Sentiment, regard to justice, and love of Country, have no part; and he was right, to insinuate the darkest suspicion, to effect the blackest designs.
That the Address is drawn with great art, and is designed to answer the most insidious purposes. That it is calculated to impress the Mind, with an idea of premeditated injustice in the Sovereign power of the United States, and rouse all those resentments which must unavoidably flow from such a belief. That the secret Mover of this Scheme (whoever he may be) intended to take advantage of the passions, while they were warmed by the recollection of past distresses, without giving time for cool, deliberative thinking, & that composure of Mind which is so necessary to give dignity & stability to measures, is rendered too obvious, by the mode of conducting the business, to need other proof than a reference to the proceeding.”

1780s, The Newburgh Address (1783)

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