Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
GEORGE WASHINGTONIf the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
More George Washington Quotes
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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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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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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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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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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