Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
GEORGE WASHINGTONSystem to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Man is the religious animal.
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
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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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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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