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.
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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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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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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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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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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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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 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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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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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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