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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

George Washington

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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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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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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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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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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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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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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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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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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
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