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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONGentlemen, 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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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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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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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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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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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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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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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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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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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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