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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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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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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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