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To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

George Washington

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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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Attachment Confirm Heart Liberty Love Myself Necessary
A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Fight Mind One Liner Revenge War
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Guard One Liner Patriotism Posture
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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Character Firm Honesty Maintain Man Virtue
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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Experience Healing Lesson Past Profit Purpose
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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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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Adopt Execution Experience Intervention Men Power Teaching
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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God Hands Honesty Repair Standard
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Harmony Humanity Interest Liberty Nation Policy
Wisdom and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm.
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Good Machine Necessary Politics Rescue Storm Time Wisdom
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Government Moral Rules Species True Virtue
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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Abuse Liberty Power Ruin
The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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Age Experience Measure Nation
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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Necessary Retirement Shade Weight Welcome
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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Danger Eloquence Fear Fire Force Government Reason Servant

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