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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.

George Washington

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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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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
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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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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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Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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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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The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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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.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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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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One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
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Guard One Liner Patriotism Posture
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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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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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

Men One Liner Virtue
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.
GEORGE WASHINGTON

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