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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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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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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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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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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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