George Washington Quotes About Retirement

• Vuelvo a estar sentado bajo mi vid y mi higuera... y espero pasar el resto de mis días en un retiro pacífico, haciendo que las actividades políticas cedan el paso a la diversión más racional de cultivar la tierra.

  George Washington

  Esperanza, Paz, Jubilación

  George Washington John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1796). "Los escritos de George Washington a partir de las fuentes manuscritas originales, 1745-1799".

• Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

  George Washington

  Retirement, Years, Weight

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.3

• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

  George Washington

  Sweet, Retirement, Freedom

  George Washington (1851). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.337

• At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

  George Washington

  Retirement, Heart, Humble

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.412

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