Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTONLiberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
More George Washington Quotes
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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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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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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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Man is the religious animal.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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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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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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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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