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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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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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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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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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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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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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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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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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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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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own.
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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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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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