Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
GEORGE WASHINGTONThe 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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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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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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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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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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It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.
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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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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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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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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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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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