System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
GEORGE WASHINGTONTrue friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
More George Washington Quotes
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of 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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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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