The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
GEORGE WASHINGTONReligious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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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 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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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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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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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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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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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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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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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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