Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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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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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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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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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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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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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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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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
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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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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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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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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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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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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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