A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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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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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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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