Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIt 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.
More George Washington Quotes
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Man is the religious animal.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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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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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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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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