Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
GEORGE WASHINGTONLabor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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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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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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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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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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