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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

George Washington

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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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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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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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.
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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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