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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

George Washington

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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Dreans Earth Man Plague
Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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Affliction Distress Feeling Heart One Liner
Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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Believe Bullet Charm Inspirational Sound Whistle
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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Blind Country Duty Gentlemen Gray Grow Permit Service Spectacle
Man is the religious animal.
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Animal Man One Liner Religion
Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Business Coffee Decision Entrepreneur One Liner Planning
Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Earn Injurious Occasion Speak
We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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Confederation Good Human Human Nature Opinion
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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Necessary Retirement Shade Weight Welcome
Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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Good Machine Necessary Politics Rescue Storm Time Wisdom
Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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Committed Fault Revolution Rights
Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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Depend Happiness Mind Person World
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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Enemy Fortune
Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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Commerce Door Fraud Honesty Justice Money Paper Species State

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