Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
GEORGE WASHINGTONFew men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
More George Washington Quotes
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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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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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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