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 WASHINGTONTo persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
More George Washington Quotes
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A bad war is fought with a good mind.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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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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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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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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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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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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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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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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The experience of every age and nation has proved it and we must in a great measure.
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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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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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