Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTONA bad war is fought with a good mind.
More George Washington Quotes
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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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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.
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I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from my mom.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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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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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle; and that almost every man is more or less, under its influence.
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