There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMy first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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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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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company.
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To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
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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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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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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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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.
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