We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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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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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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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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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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