One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
GEORGE WASHINGTONBe courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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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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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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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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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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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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