Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
GEORGE WASHINGTONReason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
More George Washington Quotes
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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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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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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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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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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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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Religion is a byproduct of fear.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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