Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
GEORGE WASHINGTONTo persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
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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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Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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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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The hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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