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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.

George Washington

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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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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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I 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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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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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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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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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
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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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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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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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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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