True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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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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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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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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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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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Man is the religious animal.
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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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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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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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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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