Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
GEORGE WASHINGTONHeard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
More George Washington Quotes
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Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do – then do it with all your strength.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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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.
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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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Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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