If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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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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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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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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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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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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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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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