A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.


Letter to Major-General John Sullivan (15 December 1779), published in The Writings of George Washington (1890) by Worthington Chauncey Ford, Vol. 8, p. 139


A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and...

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and...

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and...

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and...