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 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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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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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.
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If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity.
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If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.
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We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.
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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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It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people.
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Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.
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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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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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Freedom of inquiry will produce liberality of conduct.
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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
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