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 WASHINGTONArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
More George Washington Quotes
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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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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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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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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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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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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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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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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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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Man is the religious animal.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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