We must consult our means rather than our wishes.
GEORGE WASHINGTONSpeak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
More George Washington Quotes
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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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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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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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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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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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
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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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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.
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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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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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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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