Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
More George Washington Quotes
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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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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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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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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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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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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