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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.

George Washington

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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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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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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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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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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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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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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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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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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 basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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