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.

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: 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.