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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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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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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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Man is the religious animal.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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.
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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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