I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTONStrive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
More George Washington Quotes
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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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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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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