I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
GEORGE WASHINGTONExperience 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.
More George Washington Quotes
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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We 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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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