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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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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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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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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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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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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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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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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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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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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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