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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.

George Washington

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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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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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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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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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