I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
GEORGE WASHINGTONBe not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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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 conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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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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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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.
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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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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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