Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMy first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
More George Washington Quotes
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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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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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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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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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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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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