It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
GEORGE WASHINGTONEvery man thinks God is on his side.
More George Washington Quotes
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgement to others with modesty.
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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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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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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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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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