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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.

George Washington

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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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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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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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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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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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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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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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