I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
GEORGE WASHINGTONSpeak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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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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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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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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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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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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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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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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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 bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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