Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWe should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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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.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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