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 WASHINGTONIndividuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
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The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim.
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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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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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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
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Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward.
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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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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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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,
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