A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
GEORGE WASHINGTONMy first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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Few men are capable of making a continual sacrifice of all views of private interest, or advantage, to the common good.
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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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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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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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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
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