I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
GEORGE WASHINGTONIt 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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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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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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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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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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