I’ll die on my feet before I’ll live on my knees!
GEORGE WASHINGTONThere 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.
More George Washington Quotes
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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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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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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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
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The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
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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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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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Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.
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Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country.
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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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There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.
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Every man thinks God is on his side.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it.
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99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
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