Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
More George Washington Quotes
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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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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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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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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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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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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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