Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Experience has taught us, that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures best calculated for their own good, without the intervention of a coercive power.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
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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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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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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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