We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
GEORGE WASHINGTONA bad war is fought with a good mind.
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No punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.
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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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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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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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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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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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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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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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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