Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
GEORGE WASHINGTONA bad war is fought with a good mind.
More George Washington Quotes
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.
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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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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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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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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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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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