Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
GEORGE WASHINGTONWe should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
More George Washington Quotes
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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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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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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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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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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