True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.
GEORGE WASHINGTONCitizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.
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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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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
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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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System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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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Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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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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I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days.
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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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To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.
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Man is the religious animal.
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