We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
GEORGE WASHINGTONLet us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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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 rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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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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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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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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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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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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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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