Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
GEORGE WASHINGTONLiberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
More George Washington Quotes
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Man is the religious animal.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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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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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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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 reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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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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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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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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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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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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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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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