Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
GEORGE WASHINGTONCitizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
More George Washington Quotes
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.
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I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
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The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government.
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The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
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Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness.
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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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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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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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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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The nation which indulges toward another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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