If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
GEORGE WASHINGTONHarmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
More George Washington Quotes
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I had hoped that liberal and enlightened thought would have reconciled the Christians so that their religious fights would not endanger the peace of Society.
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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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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone.
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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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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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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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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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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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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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?
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