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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONTo persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
More George Washington Quotes
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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