It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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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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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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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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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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Man is the religious animal.
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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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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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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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