Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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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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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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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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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 primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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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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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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