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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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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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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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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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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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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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