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.
GEORGE WASHINGTONI attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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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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Man is the religious animal.
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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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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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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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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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