Washington on Morality and Religion

George Washington:

Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Comments

[Jack Hart]

Wise man that Washington fello!
Great quote!
Jack

[Brenda Bowers]

I have read much on George Washington and found him to be very "human". He was a man of his times. And then there were times this totally different man would emerge briefly who seemed to have nothing in common with the other George Washington. It is this other George Washington we can thank God we had with us at such a crucial time on our history.

All of the Founding Fathers were in some way superior human beings, but human beings none-the-less. That is, their political persona was pretty much in keeping with their everyday lives and their personal beliefs. (And this applies even when they did not live their personal beliefs as in those who did not believe in slavery and yet owned slaves as I am sure someone will point out. :))

George Washington however I have found to be an enigma. So much has been written about him and his life appeared to be so open, and yet I feel that I have yet to understand him as I do some of the others. BB