10+ Best 'George Washington' Quotes

Alexander Hamilton: Mr. President, they will say you're weak.

George Washington: No, they will see we're strong.

Alexander Hamilton: Your position is so unique.

George Washington: So I'll use it to move them along.

Alexander Hamilton: Why do you have to say goodbye?

George Washington: If I say goodbye, the nation learns to move on. It outlives me when I'm gone. Like the scripture says: "Everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid." They'll be safe in the nation we've made. I wanna sit under my own vine and fig tree. A moment alone in the shade, at home in this nation we've made. One last time.

Quote from Hamilton (An American Musical) | George Washington: I wanna give you a word of warning. Alexander Hamilton: Sir, I don't know what you heard, but whatever it is, Jefferson started it. George Washington: Thomas Jefferson resigned this morning. Alexander Hamilton: You're kidding.

Thomas Jefferson (to Hamilton): You're nothing without Washington behind you.

George Washington: Hamilton!

Thomas Jefferson (to Hamilton): Daddy's calling.

Alexander Hamilton: When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game. But you don't get a win unless you play in the game. Oh, you get love for it. You get hate for it. You get nothing if you...

Hamilton & Company: Wait for it, wait for it, wait!

Alexander Hamilton: God help and forgive me, I wanna build something that's gonna outlive me.

Hamilton, Washington, Jefferson & Madison: What do you want, Burr? If you stand for nothing, Burr, then what do you fall for?

Aaron Burr: I... wanna be in the room where it happens. I've got to be in the room where it happens.

George Washington (to Hamilton): Winning was easy, young man. Governing's harder.

Quote from Hamilton (An American Musical) | George Washington: They are asking me to lead. I am doing the best I can to get the people that I need, I'm asking you to be my right hand man. Alexander Hamilton: Treasury or State? George Washington: I know it's a lot to ask... Alexander Hamilton: Treasury or State? George Washington: To leave behind the world you know... Alexander Hamilton: Sir, do you want me to run the Treasury or State department? George Washington: Treasury. Alexander Hamilton: Let's go.

George Washington (to Hamilton): I know that we can win. I know that greatness lies in you. But remember from here on in, history has its eyes on you.

Quote from Hamilton (An American Musical) | George Washington (to Hamilton): Let me tell you what I wish I'd known when I was young and dreamed of glory: You have no control: Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.

George Washington: Alexander Hamilton, troops are waiting in the field for you. If you join us right now, together we can turn the tide. Oh, Alexander Hamilton, I have soldiers who will yield for you. If we manage to get this right, they'll surrender by early light. The world will never be the same, Alexander...

George Washington: I am not a maiden in need of defending, I am grown.

Alexander Hamilton: Charles Lee, Thomas Conway, these men take your name and they rake it through the mud.

George Washington: My name's been through a lot, I can take it.

George Washington: Son—

Alexander Hamilton: Don't call me son.

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George Washington: Son—

Alexander Hamilton: I'm notcha son—

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Alexander Hamilton: I'm more than willing to die—

George Washington: Your wife needs you alive, son, I need you alive—

Alexander Hamilton (angrily): Call me son one more time!

George Washington: Go home, Alexander.

George Washington (to Hamilton about Lee): Don't do a thing. History will prove him wrong.

George Washington: Alex, listen. There's only one way for us to win this. Provoke outrage, outright. Don't engage, strike by night. Remain relentless 'til their troops take flight.

Alexander Hamilton: Make it impossible to justify the cost of the fight.

George Washington: Outrun. Outlast. Hit 'em quick, get out fast.

Alexander Hamilton: Chick-a-plao!

George Washington: Stay alive 'til this horror show is past. We're gonna fly a lot of flags half-mast.

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