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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
More George Washington Quotes
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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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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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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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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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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The 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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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